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punit.theikospunit.theikos 

Salesforce handling of double byte characters

Hi All,

We have a reqirement of storing double byte characters using API calls. Is there any prerequisite of being able to insert the double byte data in Salesforce.

Also when we tried putting Chinese characters in salesforce while creating an account in address fields online, and then we changed the language of our account to Chinese in setup for the username. The data was still being shown as unicode characters and was not being displayed in native language. Is there something that we are missing?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Punit

benjasikbenjasik
The system supports Unicode, and thus CJK. The API supports Unicode as well.

Changing your language only changes the display of the labels. Otherwise, the system will support both doublebyte and single byte characters
SuperfellSuperfell
unless you're on the ssl instance. (ssl.salesforce.com)
Ian@TelmarIan@Telmar

Benji,

We are looking at expanding our instance globally.  I have my Asian and European offices asking questions about entering data in their native language and Salesforce handling it properly.  It sounds similar to this issue, but i'm not sure.  What do i need to know about Salesforce handling chinese or any double byte character languages?

Thanks