NetWare 4.1/9000 Concepts

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Unbinding
The process of removing a communication protocol from network boards
and LAN drivers.
See “Binding and unbinding.”
Unknown object
A leaf object that represents a NetWare Directory Services object that has
been corrupted and can't be identified as belonging to any of the other object
classes.
See also “Object.”
Unicode
A 16-bit character representation, defined by the Unicode Consortium, that
supports up to 65,536 unique characters. Unicode allows you to represent
the characters for multiple languages using a single Unicode representation.
All objects and their attributes in the NetWare Directory database are stored
in their Unicode representation.
However, clients (including DOS) use 256-character code pages (using 8-bit
characters). Not every character created using a given code page will display
correctly on a workstation using a different code page.
(For more information on code pages, see your DOS manual.)
When you change code pages, you need a different set of Unicode
translation tables in order to run NetWare utilities and manage the NetWare
Directory database.