SAP CHAR REPRESENTATION - Glossary



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VERSION 5 IN

character representation
Binary encoding of characters. Character sets are assigned to a character representation using code pages.
BEGIN_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT The ISO-8859 code pages are single-byte character representations, in which every character is encoded in up to one byte. <(>SJIS<)> and <(>BIG5<)> are double-byte character representations for Japanese and traditional Chinese fonts.
END_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT The Unicode character representations comprise all characters world-wide and can be encoded using one, two, or four bytes, depending on the UTF representation.