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Unicode Support

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Siebel eBusiness Applications support Unicode. For comprehensive Unicode compliance, consider the following encryption and authentication issues.

Using Non-ASCII Characters in a Unicode Environment

For database authentication, the user ID and password must use characters that are supported by the Siebel Database.
Login problems may occur if you log into a Unicode Siebel site, then use Web Single Sign-On to access a third-party Web page that does not support Unicode. Make sure all applications accessible from Web SSO are Unicode-compliant.

Logging Into a Siebel Application

If you use a form login mechanism for your Siebel applications, make sure that the characters used in the login form are supported by the Siebel Database.
If you use a URL login mechanism for your Siebel applications, the characters used in the login form must be in ASCII.

Encrypted Data

Siebel applications provide RC2 encryption to encrypt field data for sensitive information such as credit card numbers. For Unicode, you must use RC2 rather than the Standard Encryptor, which is no longer supported.

For details, see Business Component Encryption and RC2 Encryption Administration. For information about upgrading to RC2 encryption from the Standard Encryptor to RC2, refer to Upgrade Guide.

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