Unicode characters you can import

Unicode provides code points that combine to create a range of characters for different scripts and languages.

Unicode code points are organized into blocks on either:

• The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) for common scripts and languages that use an alphabet.
• The sixteen Supplementary Multilingual Planes (SMPs), which support less common scripts, emoji, and complex ideograms outside of the BMP.

For more information about which plane different characters are part of, see the Unicode Code Charts.

In Anaplan, characters from the BMP have a length of one, and characters from the SMP have a length of two.

This length affects the behavior of the LEFT, LENGTH, MID and RIGHT functions in the Classic engine. Each function considers a character from the SMP to be equivalent to two characters from the BMP.

Additionally, this length affects the 60 character limit for list item names (or other names you can define, such as module names). List item names have a limit of 60 characters, but characters from the SMP count as two characters towards this limit.

You should normalize your data when you import characters that contain variants such as accents. This can reduce errors, and ensure consistency. For example, certain calculation functions handle canonically equivalent characters with different encoding differently.

The following Unicode code points and the control characters they represent cannot be imported into an Anaplan model: