Multi-byte data should be treated as binary data. That is, DBMS and MDM-RE utilities must be informed that they are operating on binary data so that they read the data using binary mode file I/O.

By default, MDM-RE and Oracle utilities assume they are operating on text data, and will read and write files in text mode. If a character in the input file matches a newline (

CR/LF

) or End-of-File marker (

Ctrl-Z

), the input file will not be read correctly and records may be accidentally split and/or the whole input file may not be read. This is more likely to occur with

UTF-16/UCS-2

data.