How To Check That My SAP Server is Unicode Or Non Unicode

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

Please let me know that How To Check That My SAP Server is Unicode Or Non Unicode from my Application Server

I want to do kernel update right now my Kernel Rel is 620 i want to update my kernel Rel to 640

Please can somebody tell me the complete procedure how to update my kernel

Details of my server as follows : Kernel Rel - 620, Patch Level - 1773, Database - Oracle - 9.2.0.8.0

Thank You

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

If you go to the transaction SM51, Button "Release Notes" you get information about the kernel, including if it is Unicode or not. For example:

SAP R/3 Kernel 640_REL

Database Client Library OCI_920_SHARE

created in NT 5.0 2195 Service Pack 4 x86 MS VC++ 13.10

created on Sep 11 2006 00:00:24

Support Level 0

Kernel Patch number 147

Source ID 0.147

DBSL Patch No. 142

<b>ICU Version 2.6.1 Unicode Version 4.0 </b>

[Former Member]

Hello

Many Thanks For Your Reply

Can You Tell Me Why We Use Database Character Set and why we use non unicode & unicode system these days ?

In Previous SAP which database character set has been used

Thanks

[Former Member]

Unicode : http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/df/cf469457b4d941a1d2e8c4f04199c5/frameset.htm

Cheers,

-Sunil

[Former Member]

Hi,

Hi,

The character set of a database defines how characters are stored in the

database. Therefore you are limited to storing just the characters defined in

that character set. If you change character sets there is a possibility that characters that you currently use are not defined in the new character set and therefore you could 'corrupt' your data. You should always check this by using the Character Set Scanner (csscan).

Do you need a Unicode or non-Unicode kernel, or both of them? This question is especially relevant, if the system is ABAP-based. Java-based systems are always Unicode systems. A Double-Stack system runs both an ABAP and a Java engine, while the ABAP part runs with a non-Unicode kernel.

Detailed expln have a look on notes 745030,79999,747036....

Advantages of Unicode-Based SAP NetWeaver Components

Unicode is an international-standard single-code page that has

the following functions:

• Assigns a unique number to more than 100,000 characters

• Supports virtually all languages in the world as defined by

ISO 639-1

• Functions as the system code page, front-end code page,

and printing code page

regards

Vinod

[Former Member]

UTF8 = Unicode

WE8DEC, US7ASCII are not unicode.

Peter