User-defined data types in multi-byte character sets

The following extract from the XML configuration file for data types shows an example of the definition options for a user-defined data type when using a multi-byte character set:

Example with base scaling and one other scaling:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE datatypelist SYSTEM "userdefdatatypes.dtd">

<datatypelist>

...

<datatype name="COST">

<description language="en" name="Costs"/>

<description language="en" name="Costs" />

<description language="el" name="έξοδα"/>

<basescale name="EUR">

<description language="de" name="EUR"/>

<description language="en" name="EUR"/>

<description language="el" name="ΕYP"/>

</basescale>

<scale factor="0.001" name="TEUR">

<description language="de" name="TEUR" />

<description language="en" name="EUR Thousands" />

<description language="el" name="Χ.EYP"/>

</scale>

</datatype>

...

</datatypelist>

You can also carry out the user-specific configuration of the file DataTypes.xml using PPM Customizing Toolkit.