Unicode UTF-8 and UTF-16 Support

Replication Server supports the character set Unicode UTF-8 and three Unicode datatypes—unichar, univarchar, and unitext—which are UTF-16 encoded. Unicode allows you to mix different languages from different language groups in the same data server.

See the Adaptive Server Enterprise System Administration Guide Volume 1.

• UTF-8
  UTF-8 (UCS Transformation Format, 8-bit form) is an international character set that supports more than 650 languages. UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding of the Unicode standard using 8-bit sequences.
• UTF-16
  UTF-16 (UCS Transformation Format, 16-bit form) is a fixed-length encoding of the Unicode standard using 16-bit sequences, where all characters are 2 bytes long. As with UTF-8, code values beyond the BMP are represented using surrogate pairs that require 4 bytes.
• Requirements
  To use the Unicode UTF-8 default character set or the unichar and univarchar datatypes, you must be running SAP Replication Server version 12.5 or later and have set the site version to 12.5 or later.