Hello Stephan, just again to make it clear:
Unicode is an international standard to assign an integer number to every character of every written language. UCS2 and UTF8 are both 'encodings', that is, methods of mapping these assigned integer numbers into pattern of bits. Maybe the article http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode may be worth to read. As the CHAR UNICODE, the VARCHAR UNICODE, and the LONG UNICODE data type (available if you have created an Unicode database instance) use UCS2 to represent Unicode, you can store of course everything that is in Unicode in a column of that datatype (including, but not limited to greek and german characters). Regards Alexander Schr�der SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Groschupf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:51 PM > To: Schroeder, Alexander; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: AW: UTF 8 > > > >SAP DB uses UCS2 to support Unicode character data. > > >A character datatype which stores the values in UTF8 encoding > >is not supported. > > Means I can _not_ use greek and german characters in one table??? > > Stefan > _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
