Unicode Character Handling

Earlier versions of AVEVA Hull and Outfitting handled textual data such as element names, textual attributes and file names in a manner specific to the various supported character sets used in supported languages. This applied to most of the input, output and storage. This has now changed; all textual information in AVEVA Hull and Outfitting is represented as Unicode.

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 109,000 characters covering 93 scripts. For more details, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode.

Unicode can be implemented using different character encodings. The AVEVA Hull and Outfitting Internal Format for string data is Unicode UTF-8 format. This can handle all seven character sets supported in previous versions – and potentially many more.