What is Unicoad?

[former_member502730]

Dear All,

What is unicoad?

How it works? how to do any development using unicoad?

Regards,

Dharmesh

[Former Member]

Hi Dharmesh,

I hope you mean Unicode.

UNICODE is an international standard and is able to express any characters used in an alphabet in a single character set.

See http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/df/cf469457b4d941a1d2e8c4f04199c5/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/62/3f2cadb35311d5993800508b6b8b11/frameset.htm

[Former Member]

Hai Dharmesh,

I think you want to know about Unicode...

<b>Unicode is a character encoding system similiar to ASCII. You can see the definiton for Unicode by Unicode consortium below.

Unicode is the universal character encoding, maintained by the Unicode Consortium.

This encoding standard provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software and information technology protocols". Unicode covers all the characters for all the writing systems of the world, modern and ancient. It also includes technical symbols, punctuations, and many other characters used in writing text.

The Unicode Standard is intended to support the needs of all types of users, whether in business or academia, using mainstream or minority scripts.</b>

Most of the SAP implementations are done on Unicode system as it support all kind of languages, which is good for a company to expend their business. Another things is Unicode system requires 70% more storage area and processing speed to run the system perfactly.

There are systems like XI, which can work only on Unicode so it is always advisible to go for unicode then to non-unicode.

I think this link helps you...

<b>www30.sap.com/korea/services/ pdf/CID_200507_7_UniCode.pdf

If these answers helped you, please reward and close the post</b>

Regards,

Srikanth.

Message was edited by: Srikanth

Message was edited by: Srikanth

[Former Member]

HI

GOOD

GO THROUGH THIS LINK

http://sappoint.com/abap/

http://www30.sap.com/korea/Company/Events/techday05/img/data_01.pdf

http://www30.sap.com/korea/Company/Events/techday05/img/data_01.pdf

THANKS

MRUTYUN

[Former Member]

Data types such as CHAR ASCII and CHAR EBCDIC are mainly suited to English and central European languages. With other character sets, a code attribute is usually used for these data types. This code attribute uses a different presentation code to ASCII and EBCDIC, even for internal storage in the database system. This causes problems if you want to access these database systems using a different character set, or if you want to exchange data between database systems with different character sets.

You can avoid these problems by using internal character coding in accordance with UNICODE. Internally, the UNICODE data is stored in UTF-16/UCS-2 format. In UTF-16/UCS-2 format, all characters are two bytes long.

The names of the database objects (such as table or column names) can be stored internally in UNICODE and can therefore then be displayed in the required presentation code in the database tools.

SAP DB supports the code attribute UNICODE for the data types CHAR[ACTER], VARCHAR and LONG[VARCHAR].

[former_member188685]

hi,

check this sap help..

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/df/cf469457b4d941a1d2e8c4f04199c5/frameset.htm

Regards

vijay

[former_member188685]

HI,

check this also..

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/62/3f2cadb35311d5993800508b6b8b11/content.htm">ABAP and Unicode</a>