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Unicode Attribute - Necessary before Unicode Conversion?

Former Member
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We are about to upgrade to ECC 6.0 with a Unicode conversion.

I know that the "Unicode Checks Active" flag must be set in every

customer program in order for the code to run in an ECC 6.0 unicode environment.

My question is does this HAVE to be done before we do the unicode

conversion. What we would like to do is convert the system to ECC 6.0

with Unicode and then apply the transports which set the "Unicode

Checks Active" flag. Since some of these transports contain new

objects, we would prefer to upgrade to ECC 6.0, then convert to unicode

first and apply the transports afterwards, to reduce the risk of potentially needing to rerun

scans.

Ideally we would have cleared all this before the upgrade, but we only

found this issue in our test system after we had upgraded it.

Is this a bad plan?

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nils_buerckel
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
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Hi Chris,

it is not necessary to set the Unicode flag for programming objects in order to succeed with the technical Unicode conversion.

However please keep in mind that the programs without flag will not work in the Unicode environment (as you already stated).

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

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nils_buerckel
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
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Hi Chris,

it is not necessary to set the Unicode flag for programming objects in order to succeed with the technical Unicode conversion.

However please keep in mind that the programs without flag will not work in the Unicode environment (as you already stated).

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

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Many Thanks Nils.