Why we use UNICODE

kamaldeep.kaur · Post by **kamaldeep.kaur** » Fri May 25, 2007 12:04 am

Hi all,

Why we use UNICODE extened type for char datatype,how its effect our data?

Regards
kamal

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri May 25, 2007 1:50 am

I have no idea why you particularly use it.

Unicode is an encoding strategy that claims to support every character known to commercial data processing.

Without Unicode, DataStage is limited to the encoding called ISO8859-1, sometimes erroneously referred to as "8 bit ASCII".

kamaldeep.kaur · Post by **kamaldeep.kaur** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:24 am

but wat this unicode means here,

JoshGeorge · Post by **JoshGeorge** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:58 am

So that it will support an international standard character set. (To resolve ambiguities that traditionally arise when displaying complex scripts like Japanese, Arabian or Chinese)

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:08 am

Where here? There here? <Young Frankenstein springs to mind>

Did you check out on the Unicode link?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:47 pm

Arabic script isn't complex.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:28 pm

Maybe he meant what the horses speak.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:18 pm

And 'maybe' I was being a wizenheimer about the Arabian comment, and not supporting anything about 'Arabic' script. I'm not the World Traveller that Uncle Ray is, nor nearly as cool.