Do customers need to convert to a Unicode-compliant environment?
If your company employs truly global business processes or manages global master
data, or if you open your system to the Internet by allowing your customers to
enter contact data directly, you will likely need to support multiple local language
characters. Various code pages enable the display of national characters, but collaboration
on the Web has led to a huge number of language-specific, platformdependent
code pages that must interact with each other. And this compliance is
only possible through Unicode – an international standard that supports virtually
all languages and scripts used around the world, ensuring that they work no
Unicode conversion depends on the customer situation. SAP has encoded the
Unicode standard in the latest release so that multiple languages within the
ERP software, which required different code pages in the past, can now run on
one application.
The need to implement Unicode depends on your use of one or more languages
in the current SAP software:
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I f your organization runs a single code page system prior to the upgrade to
SAP ERP and you do not plan to make use of Java or applications related to
an SOA, then the use of Unicode is not mandatory in all cases. For example,
German, English, Spanish, Italian, and French all run on code page 1100 and
thus can all live in the same system without Unicode. However, if the system
is deployed globally, using Unicode is highly recommended in order to facilitate
interfaces and connections. Please refer to SAP Note 1322715 (points 5 and 6)
for more information.
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I f your organization uses multidisplay, multiprocessing (MDMP) or other older
technology such as blended code pages, which is quite common, then the
use of Unicode is mandatory for the SAP ERP upgrade. These projects always
include two steps: the upgrade to the target release and then the Unicode
conversion
of the ERP software. Existing installations of SAP R/3 Enterprise or
mySAP ERP 2004 can be converted to Unicode prior to the upgrade to the
current version of SAP ERP, resulting in two separate procedures. Customers
running SAP R/3 4.6 (or below) have to execute these steps in one project.
SAP supports the conversion to Unicode by offering country-specific services.
To find further information on Unicode conversions and the support SAP provides,
please visit SAP Service Marketplace at
www.service.sap.com/globalization
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