While StarTeam Server supports data in all languages that can be encoded in UTF-8, it only uses ASCII characters (0-127) as it expands keywords. Keyword expansion and EOL conversion should work for all “ASCII-based” encodings, which include UTF-8, Cp1252, and so on. For the various UTF-16 encodings, StarTeam Server currently performs EOL conversion, but does not expand keywords.
The internal names of custom fields must be ASCII, but the display names can be in non-English character sets.