When you use Financial Management on the Web, you can specify whether to save all extracted files in Unicode format. The Unicode format for encoding text provides the ability to view multilingual characters. If you select this option, all extracted files including documents, reports, data files, metadata files, member list files, journals, rules, and security files are saved in Unicode format, using the UTF-16 character set.
Select the Unicode file option if the extract files might contain multibyte (Japanese or other) characters and your code page on the Web server does not support them. For example, if your default code page on the Web server is English, and you extract a file that contains Japanese characters, those characters are displayed correctly only if you select this option.
If you do not select to save all files as Unicode, only metadata files are saved as Unicode. All other extract files are saved as ASCII files.