Migrating Applications to Unicode Mode

When Essbase Server migrates a non-Unicode-mode application to Unicode mode, the character encoding in the application files is converted to UTF-8 encoding.

Before migrating application files to Unicode mode, perform the following tasks:

  To migrate an application from non-Unicode mode to Unicode mode, use a tool:

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Administration Services

Migrating Applications to Unicode Mode

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Text files, such as calculation scripts, report scripts, and data sources, are not converted to UTF-8 encoding. For Unicode-mode applications, text files can be encoded in UTF-8 or in non-Unicode locales. You can use Essbase Unicode File Utility to convert non-Unicode-encoded files to UTF-8. See Essbase Unicode File Utility.

Note:

If you choose to work with non-Unicode text files in your Unicode-mode application, ensure that you understand how Essbase determines the locales of non-Unicode text files. See Managing File Encoding.