PPM supports the display of source system data and certain configuration elements using local character sets that are not included in the ANSI character set and are coded with a multi-byte character set (MBCS). Examples are Japanese Kanji and Greek characters.
All XML files imported into the PPM system and not based on the character set for a Western European language, must reference the UTF-8 character set as encoding:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<...>
...
</...>
In principle, tooltips and all language-specific names displayed in the PPM user interface can be displayed using a multi-byte character set. Specifically, this applies to the following elements:
Furthermore, the language-specific names of user-defined data types can be entered using a multi-byte character set.
For attribute types and attribute type groups, the internal names (key XML attribute) can also be configured with a multi-byte character set.