Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what platform, no matter what program, no matter what language. MetaSuite supports UNICODE fields for both source and target files.
Following field types are supported by Metasuite: National, to support Unicode strings or Unicode Date fields, Printed Numeric National, as the Unicode variant of the field type “Printed Numeric”.
Support for Virtual decimal separators, collection of National items for GROUP-USAGE National and PICTURE N and Numeric national items automatically get a pre-defined edit mask.
More info can be found in the standard MetaSuite documentation.