1. Database Upgrade Guide
  2. Supported Types of Unicode

Supported Types of Unicode

The current release supports two types of Unicode:

  • UTF-8. UTF-8 uses the same encoding for Western European languages. It occupies one byte for Western European languages and up to three bytes for some Asian languages, such as Japanese.

  • UCS-2. UCS-2 is supported for IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server databases. UCS-2 does not map one-to-one with Western European languages. It occupies two bytes for all languages.