This case study describes how you might set up an environment that processes Unicode UTF-8 multibyte data. You might want to configure your environment this way if you need to process data from Western European, Middle Eastern, Asian, or any other language with characters encoded in the UTF-8 character set. This example describes an environment that processes German and Japanese language data.
For this case study, the UTF-8 environment consists of the following elements:
The PowerCenter Integration Service on a UNIX machine
The PowerCenter Clients on Windows systems
The PowerCenter repository stored on an Oracle database on UNIX
A source database contains German language data
A source database contains German and Japanese language data
A target database contains German and Japanese language data
A lookup database contains German language data
The data environment must process German and Japanese character data.