Valuemation Unicode Support

The use of data in multiple languages with different character sets (or languages with special characters) spurs the need for a universal character encoding. This need is currently best fulfilled by the Unicode standard.

In this Valuemation Help chapter:

• An overview of Valuemation Unicode support

  Different Valuemation areas require different approaches to the use of complex character sets:

  • GUI Translations

    Special characters are stored using Java Unicode string format.

  • Business data with complex character sets

    Support for storing business data which require Unicode can be a complex issue depending on used database platform.

  • Multilingual Data

    Multilingual business data are stored in supplementary tables using Unicode data types.

• Valuemation language-related settings
  • For string lengths checking to work properly, Valuemation must know about the code page used by the database (setting 'Database Character Encoding').
  • Individual object type attributes can be excluded from conversion to Unicode to prevent problems with MS SQL Server index column length (extended property 'UnicodeDisabled').
• Detailed Technical Information

  The migration procedure, database specific considerations and technical details are covered by the following regularly updated document (englisch): Unicode Support and Migration Procedure