Unicode upgrade & impact on security

Hi All,
One of my clients will be upgrading their system to Unicode in the next few months.
Does anyone have experiences to share of this process with respect to security.
I know that it can cause problems with portals, however that is not an issue here as it's the ABAP stack that I am most interested in.
Cheers
Alex

Hi All,
Unicode upgrade went live in production a while back and no problems to report from a security side.
No issues which have subsequently been identified have been traced back to teh Unicode upgrade being the cause.
Cheers
Alex

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