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.