Character data in the Data Dictionary affects the following kinds of view columns:
| View Column | Effect |
|---|---|
| Object Name | To make the Data Dictionary field definitions consistent across all Teradata platforms, the following attributes apply to each object name:
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| Text Strings | In the Data Dictionary, there are object names, SQL Text, and other fields (for example, Title) that are Unicode. |
| Other Character Data | The server character set of non-object name character fields in the Data Dictionary is Latin. These fields (for example, CHAR(1) or CHAR(2)) have a fixed set of values (for example, Y, N, A, CV, and so on) and contain characters from U+0020 to U+007F (for example, A is U+0041). |
See Client Character Set Compatibility with Server Character Sets.