GENERAL UNICODE ISSUE

[Former Member]

Hi

CAN ANYONE TELL ME FOR UNICODE EACH CHARATER CAN OCCUPY 2 BYTES OR 4 BYTES

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE ,I MEAN WHY DO WE HAVE SO WE HAVE DECIDE BETWEEN ONE OF THIS .

wHAT ARE THE ADV OF ONE OVER THE OTHER

THANKS

SUCHITRA

[amit_khare]

Check Ferry's reply -

Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

Hi,

In addition to the link below you might want to check out this link. UTF-8 is fixed length 2 bytes and UTF-16 is variable length 1 to 4 bytes.

SAP uses UTF-16 for the application servers and UTF-8 for communication (like RFC).

The DB unicode encoding depends on the DB you choose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Cheers,

Mike.

[Former Member]

Check the below link :

/people/thomas.mann2/blog/2006/08/22/sap-upgrade-conflicts-1

Thanks

Seshu

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Suchitra

Althought not exactly answering your question the following Weblog is a very good introduction to ABAP and Unicode:

<a href="/people/ulrich.brink/blog/2005/08/18/unicode-file-handling-in-abap File Handling in ABAP</a>

A definitive answer to your question you will find in the excellent book written by Tony Graham:

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unicode-Primer-Tony-Graham/dp/0764546252">Unicode: A Primer</a>

Regards

Uwe