Siemens SIMATIC HMI Series System Manual page 139

WinCC Configuration Studio replaces the functionality of WinCC ConfigurationTool and WinCC
Archive ConfigurationTool.
Conversion to Unicode in WinCC V7.2
Starting from WinCC V7.2, WinCC is Unicode-capable.
● The Asian version contains all functionalities of the European version.
● Projects created in the Asian version can be executed on a European version and vice
versa. A "License Key USB Hardlock" is a prerequisite for running projects in Asian
languages.
● An WinCC project may contain several languages. The languages do not need to have the
same code page.
– The text library may contain text in languages with different code pages. A text column
– You may add different Runtime languages to a WinCC project, regardless of the code
– Process tag names may contain both Chinese and German characters, for example.
● Setup contains a project library for all languages.
The following must be installed for migration of Asian projects on a European operating
system:
– Asian language support
– The respective language code page.
The source language of the project must be known and set up for migration.
Exceptions
● Scripting components.
VB Scripts may contain text in a specific language.
The C compiler does not support Unicode. Even though you can save C scripts in Unicode,
for example, the compiler converts them into multi-byte character strings (MBCS).
● Older Active X elements
● Channels, to ensure compatibility with the Channel Development Kit (CDK) and data types
within the PLC.
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is generated accordingly for each language. For this purpose, set a font that contains
all necessary characters.
page of these languages. All languages listed in the text library are available in Runtime.
You may archive these process tags and view them in Runtime in TagLogging controls.
NOTICE
The source language of a project cannot be set more than once in the migrator
You cannot rectify an incorrect setting of the source language, because a project can be
migrated only once to the version.
Backup the projects and project libraries before you launch migration.
5.2 Important differences compared to previous versions
Migration
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