


There are companies out there that, for example, still work with SAP R/3 Release 4.6. But if you want to run SAP HANA, you’ll need to convert to Unicode, regardless of your current ERP release or which enhancement package you are on. However, not all companies have been interested in converting to Unicode, particularly those that do not do business globally. As a result, code pages can be displayed in multiple languages. SAP Business Suite has already been enabled for Unicode – the international standard for encoding, representing, and handling text – for some eight years.

Andreas Schmitz has documented this short process considering individual steps. Regardless of whether you deploy SAP ERP 6.0 with or without enhancement packs (EHPs) or are on an even older release, the journey to SAP S/4HANA is always similar.
