HANA and Unicode requirement.

I am not yet an expert in HANA so on reading documentation.
I have not found any reference to Unicode requirement in this forum..
Even if in my company we are up to date on Release level ECC 6 (for some of our SAP landscapes) they have been upgraded overtime. For some of them we have never done a Unicode database conversion.
I have seen a document on the web (link) where it says :
SAP HANA can work with SAP R/3® starting from release 4.7.
This is because UNICODE, which is required by Sybase Replication Server, became available with release 4.7.
Does it mean that a UNICODE conversion is MANDATORY if we want to plug-in HANA on an existing SAP system ?
Or is it the standard issue to lose some characters ?

What we know so far (and are waiting for detailed documentation as well) is:
1/ If you want to connect SAP Business Suite application (like ERP) to SAP HANA database using replication based on Sybase Replication Server - Business Suite application has to be Unicode
2/ If you want to connect SAP Business Suite application (like ERP) to SAP HANA database using replication based on triggers (SLT tool) - there is no requirement for the source system to be Unicode
3/ If you want to do DB migration of your BW in the future from its current RDBMS to HANA database - BW has to be Unicode.
Cheers,
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