Character Set Conversion

ExpressConnect for SAP HANA Database converts character sets depending on the default values for the Replication Server rs_charset, unicode_format, and dsi_charset_convert parameters.

If rs_charset is set to iso_1, unicode_format is set to string, and dsi_charset_convert is set to on, ExpressConnect for SAP HANA Database passes all data in its native form with no conversion. Unicode literals are not supported.

Set rs_charset to utf8 to replicate Unicode. Unicode literals are supported with this setting.

Note: Unicode replication, other than Unicode column types, requires rs_charset to be set to utf8.

If rs_charset is set to any supported character set, unicode_format is set to string (the default), and dsi_charset_convert is set to on, ExpressConnect for SAP HANA Database converts all SQL language and character parameter data to UTF-16.