Understanding Converting PeopleSoft Systems to Unicode Databases

PeopleSoft can manage data in many languages in a single database by using Unicode. The Unicode Standard, published by The Unicode Consortium, and synchronized with the International Standard ISO 10646, provides a character set that can support all the characters needed to write virtually every business language in use today.

By creating a PeopleSoft database using Unicode, you can maintain application data, reports, user interface components, and other linguistic elements of your PeopleSoft system in as many languages as you want, all in a single database.

Creating a Unicode database will be of benefit to your organization if you plan on maintaining multiple languages in your PeopleSoft system, or if one or more of the languages you are using are non-Western European languages.