Solver support for non-ASCII characters

Pre/Post follows the Unicode international standard to store multi-byte character data using UTF–8 encoding. Although Pre/Post supports the use of multi-byte characters, many third-party software packages that interface with Pre/Post, such as finite element solvers, support only ASCII character data.

Caution:

Pre/Post does not provide an error message if the solver receives unsupported characters. You must verify that your solvers will support your desired locale before implementing localization.

Solver support for multi-byte characters

Solver	Unicode support	Solve with non-ASCII entities	Solve with non-ASCII file names	Export with non-ASCII file names and entities	Import with non-ASCII file names and entities
Simcenter Nastran	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MSC Nastran	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Abaqus	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
ANSYS	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Simcenter Nastran Design	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multiphysics (Structural)	No	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes
Multiphysics (Thermal/Mapping/Coupled)	No	No	No	N/A	Yes
Thermal/Flow (Thermal/Advanced Thermal,Flow/Advanced Flow, Coupled Thermal-Flow, Axisymmetric Thermal)	No	No	No	No	Yes
Thermal/Flow (Mapping/Axisymmetric Mapping)	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
LS-DYNA	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
UNV	No	N/A	N/A	Yes	Yes
Durability	No	No	Yes	N/A	N/A
Geometry Optimization	No	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
Adaptivity	No	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
Simcenter 3D Motion	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
RecurDyn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
Adams	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
Simcenter Samcef	No	No	No	No	No

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