Unicode Example

[itabhishek9]

Hello SDNites,

I underastand the concept of unicode but can someone give me 2-3 simple example to underastand the concepts of unicode in a better way.

Thanks,

Abhi

[Former Member]

Hi Abhishek,

Lets go back decade back where we used ASCII character format for representing letters and characters.(Eg. languages like C, C++). We used 7 bits to represent each character and total of 128 characters can be represented with this format.

Moreover we have a number of languages to be represented so there was a need to increase the bit size and need for standards. That is what unicode provides a Global standard for representing characters which would help everyone to exchange, store and represent data in a efficient manner.

One example i would like to give. say you want to type in Hindi characters and send it across to your friend. So earlier we used to get softwares like Ileap and shrileap but even to see these characters your friend need the respective software to be installed. Think why you dont need anything while using orkut??

Almost all major software vendor support unicode.

This was on a nutshell for you. Hope it make some sense.

Cheers

Ajay

[Former Member]

Hi,

In the older SAP version, Unicode was not present , which made it impossible for some East Asian countries like China , Japan , Korea etc to use SAP as their language was not supported by SAP. Until then SAP supported only ASCII and EBCDIC character sets.

In order to provide better compatibililty and services to East Asian Countries, SAP introduced Unicode. It is also an encoding technique like ASCII that follows ISO standards and covers almost all languages.

In this each character uses 2 bytes and this allows 65534 different combinations of characters.

Thanks

Venkat

[Former Member]

Hi,

Check this link having some examples

[http://www.sapdev.co.uk/upgrade/uccheck_errors.htm]

Regards,

Pydi Reddy

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Abhi,

if you are interested in ABAP examples, then please check reports

TECHED_UNICODE_EXERCISE* , which are included in SAP systems (see also SAP note 583546).

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG