Requirements for Locales and Character Sets

Plans and components can include multibyte data. If a plan or component is authored in XML, the input files must be in UTF-8 format or use a byte order mark at the start of the file to signify their Unicode encoding. When plans and components are downloaded, they are always written in UTF-8 format. If a simple component refers to a configurable resource, that resource should be encoded in the native encoding of the master server or should use a byte order mark to note its encoding.