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Does Maximo Support characters greater than U+10000 ?

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Does Maximo Support characters greater than U+10000 ?

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You might want to or not want to use a characters such as pictogram/emoji and wonder if it's supported with maximo.

So here is the answer for you on how characters with maximo supported.

 

Currently this is not supported and characters greater than $FFFF is filtered out.
Java uses UTF-16 which handles unicode greater than $FFFF by escaping these into two characters.
Due to the copmplexity of handling escaped UTF-16 code we currently filter out these characters.

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