Unicode is a system that was developed to support internationalization in applications. The Metatude software can make use of Unicode. With Unicode, it is possible to get stakeholder feedback in any language. All European and non-European characters are supported in the Unicode standard.
The databases and directory servers that provide stakeholder information may be using the Unicode standard. Also, the dialogues and results can make use of Unicode.
Unicode support in the Metatude software is automaticaly enabled or disabled, based on the format of your results database. If this database uses a supported Unicode encoding (UTF-8 or UCS-2) then Unicode will be available. If your results database uses the Western European encoding (ISO-8859-1) then Unicode support is disabled. When you use a Microsoft SQL Server database for storing results, Unicode is automatically enabled.
The dialogues that are created by the Metatude Dialogue Designer (MDD) can be saved in two encodings: ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. If Unicode support is enabled, you can use the UTF-8 encoding to save dialogues. If Unicode support is not enabled, you must save your dialogues using the ISO-8859-1 encoding.