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In the past, SAP developers used various codes to encode characters of different alphabets, for example, ASCII, EBCDI, or double-byte code pages.
Using these character sets, you can account for each language relevant to the SAP System. However, problems occur if you want to merge texts from different incompatible character sets in a central system. Equally, exchanging data between systems with incompatible character sets can result in unprecedented situations.
One solution to this problem is to use a code comprising all characters used on earth. This code is called Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) and consists of at least 16 bit = 2 bytes, alternatively of 32 bit = 4 bytes per character. Although the conversion effort for the SAP kernel and applications is considerable, the migration to Unicode provides great benefits in the long run:
BENEFITS
1 The Internet (www) and consequently also mySAP.com are entirely based on Unicode, which thus is a basic requirement for international competitiveness. Unicode allows all SAP users to install a central system that covers all business processes worldwide.
2 Companies using different distributed systems frequently want to aggregate their worldwide corporate data. Without Unicode, they would be able to do this only to a limited degree. With Unicode, you can use multiple languages simultaneously at a single frontend computer.
3 Unicode is required for cross-application data exchange without loss of data due to incompatible character sets. One way to present documents in the World Wide Web (www) is XML, for example.
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vijay
Bluesky