UNICODE: more than six languages

Former Member — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:47:50 GMT

Hello,

we have a worldwide hr system with a portal and an abap system using ess/mss. The system is running with ECC 6.0. At the moment six languages are installed. System is running with unicode. We have a request to install serveral additional languages. What would be the impact, if we for example install six or more languages? Is there a maxiumum of languages in one sap system sap supports? Has each additional language a huge impact in speed of importing support packages? Or database growth?

Thanks

Alexander

Re: UNICODE: more than six languages

Former Member — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:34:44 GMT

Hi Alexander,

there is no limit for multiple languages, but SAP has only 36 (or 38 - I'm not sure) languages. We run almost 30 languages in our business systems. So I would say don't worry about your additional languages. You will import a bit more data during upgrades, but most time is normally spend in other routines than in main import. So no worry here either.

Your last question is a bit more complex to answer. Database growth depends on your database and on your Unicode encoding. If you run UTF-8 and you add Chinese code pages than your text columns could be much bigger than before, but usually you should no see a big difference. In our system we did a Unicode migration with 26 languages and 15 code pages which lead to almost no growth.

Regards

Ralph

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