When using the Server Consolidation Utility, the source and destination NetWare® servers must have the same code page set, or data will be lost during the consolidation.
WARNING: Novell does not recommend converting a foreign-language code page server back to English, nor converting a foreign-language code page server to another foreign-language code page. If either is done, it is possible that documents and folders named with or containing foreign characters might become irreversibly corrupted.
There are two recommended ways to create a NetWare server with foreign-code page support: