Using the locale features of the operating system to provide locale-specific collation order, number formatting, translated messages, and other aspects. This is covered in Section 22.1 and Section 22.2.

The shardmanctl utility validates that a locale used by the operating system of a node being processed matches the locale of the other cluster nodes when executing the following commands:

Such validation allows maintaining consistent locale settings on all cluster nodes, ensuring stable cluster operation after changing its topology.

Providing a number of different character sets to support storing text in all kinds of languages, and providing character set translation between client and server. This is covered in Section 22.3.