Symptom
- Multi-byte characters like Japanese are shown as garbled in Web Intelligence documents using Sybase ASE as data source.
- The same issue can be observed when viewing data in Information Design Tool.
- However, when connecting to Sybase ASE Database directly and run "select" SQL to get the data, all characters are shown as expected.
- Character set of Sybase ASE should be UTF-8.
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Environment
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform (BI) 4.0 / 4.1
- Information Design Tool (IDT)
- Sybase ASE
Product
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1
Keywords
question mark, double-byte, multi byte, double byte, bytes, unreadable, Japanese, Chinese, universe, WebI, utf8, utf 8 , KBA , BI-RA-WBI , Web Intelligence , BI-BIP-SL , Semantic Layer , BI-BIP-IDT , Information design tool , Problem
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