what is unicode and non-unicode system in SAP

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Unicode : Multi language support

Non Unicode : single language support 

Unicode supports all multiple languages like english, chainaa, german,..etc.
Nonunicode :only supports  two languages i.e english and german.

After NetWeaver and ECC 5.0 and etc. supports unicode kernel.
Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
 
OLD Code pages have the following disadvantages!
  • They cover only a subset of all characters. 
  • Different codepages have incompatibilities between each other. 
  • Data  exchange is restricted between code pages. there are simply to many code pages.
  •  Unicode has the cabaility to support all the languages in the world in one code page! 
  • it support 65,000 characters and has room to support an additional 1 million characters.  
Note *

* Unicode is mandatory for SAP systems deploying JAVA applications.
* Many companies are adopting service oriented architecture standards providing
   web services to enable global interoperability. these standards  require Unicode.

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