Essbase supports many non-Unicode encodings (see Supported Locales). In addition, UTF-8 encoding is supported for Unicode-mode applications.
Because a bit combination can map to different characters in different encodings, you must understand how Essbase works with file encodings, particularly if you intend to use non-Unicode-encoded files with Unicode-mode applications.
The following topics describe how Essbase determines the encoding of files and how you manage files with different encoding.