KB12097: Compressed text documents sent by MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server are in Unicode and not in ASCII.

SYMPTOM:
Compressed text documents sent by Strategy Narrowcast Server are in Unicode and not in ASCII. Since Unicode is 16 bits (2 bytes), the text files are twice as big than the ASCII equivalent as shown in the figure below:

CAUSE:
The default character sent by Strategy Narrowcast Server for compressed text documents is Unicode.
ACTION:

• Identify the locale that is being used by the publication as shown in the image below:
  

• Locate the locale to be edited as shown in the image below:
  
  

• Change the default text document encoding to US-ASCII (single byte) for compression (zipping) as shown in the image below: