Additional language and character sets in R/3

Our SAP for Retail R/3 system (GUI 470 Basis 620) is about to incorporate some new stores we are opening in the Czech Republic. With English (EN) and German (DE) languages installed, we are able to type, display and save to the database all of the Czech characters apart from two of them. It seems a bit silly to install a whole new language (CZ) for these two characters alone. Is it possible to somehow add an additional character set to SAP that would contain the Czech character set? We are happy for Czech users to log on in English so we don't need to see Czech characters in standard field descriptions in the GUI, but users will want to type these characters into items such as material/article description fields.
Any advice as to the best way to go with this would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Stuart Richards

Hi Stuart
CS belong to 1401 code and EN/DE belongs to 1100.. few char-sets might match others might not..
Best practice is to install the language..
You are not know about the future whih CS words that the users might type in.
Regards
Madhu

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