Install the following tools (provided by third-party vendors) for working with UTF-8 encoded text on computers that manage Unicode-mode applications:
UTF-8 fonts: For viewing UTF-8 encoded text that contains non-ASCII characters
(Optional) Unicode editor (which includes the UTF-8 signature): For manual editing of data sources or other text files
Essbase provides the Essbase Unicode File Utility, which converts text files to UTF-8 encoding. See Essbase Unicode File Utility.