2396686 - We can't put over 42 Chinese/Japanese Characters in nickname field

• We have configured a "nickname" field in EP portlet for user to edit it by themselves.
• The field definition in data model is like:
  

  <standard-element id="nickname" max-length="128" required="false" matrix-filter="false">
  <label>Nickname</label>

  </standard-element>

• Via UI user can enter 128 English characters per limitation, however they can only input 42 Chinese characters at most.
• In contrast, if "custom01" field with max-length="128" is configured, no matter English or Chinese characters can contain 128 characters at most.
  

  <standard-element id="custom01" max-length="128" required="false" matrix-filter="false">
  <label>Customizable Field 1</label>

  </standard-element>

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

• There's data limitation for every fields in our back end basing on the DataBase design.
• For nickname, it's limited to 128 bytes; For custom fields(custom01-15), it's limited to 255 chars.
• Usually, under UTF-8, Alphabet, number, space,half-width punctuation are seen as 1 byte, while Chinese characters, Japanese characters, as well as full-width punctuation are counted as 3 bytes. Since the max-length of "nickname" element is 128 bytes, for Chinese characters the maximum input will be 128/3 which is 42 characters.
• While custom fields(custom01-15) is limited to 255 chars, which is applying to both English characters and Chinese characters.

You may consider to use custom field instead of nickname field according to actual business situation.

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