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Reading and writing unicode characters

The Secure Agent reads and writes Unicode data using the UTF-8 code page. The Secure Agent requires that the code page environment variable is set to UTF-8.
Before you run a task to read or write unicode characters, you must set the environmental variable on the Secure Agent machine.
  1. 1Perform one of the following tasks based on the operating system of the Secure Agent machine:
  2. 2Restart the Secure Agent after you set the environmental variable.
For information about reading or writing Unicode characters in Data Integration, see https://kb.informatica.com/solution/23/Pages/58/498064.aspx?myk=infa_codepagename%20utf-8