Informatica and Unicode

Is anyone using Informatica with a successful unicode BW implementation? We are implementing Unicode BW and we also use Informatica. We have just been informed that Informatica is not unicode compliant.
Has anyone else dealt with this issue?
Thanks,
Diane McKim
[email protected]

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