UTF16 Client Character Set Support | VantageCloud Lake - UTF16 Client Character Set Support - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Database Reference

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
Release Number
Published
February 2025
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2025-11-21
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The UTF16 client character set is permanently enabled for use in Database Engine 20.

The Teradata UTF16 client character set supports UTF16, one of the standard ways of encoding Unicode character data, based on the Unicode® standard. Teradata supports a sequence of two 16-bit units to represent one logical character.