Problems with IDOC Adapter, utf-8 encoding and special characters

[Former Member]

Hello,

we have a problem with the IDOC Adapter and special characters in the Idoc content.

we sent an idoc from an 4.6c R/3 to XI, in the idoc content we have special characters (e.g. ö ä ü ...),

the Idoc adapter leave the characters untouched, but writes in the "XML-Idoc-Message" encoding=utf-8.

So the receiver adapter like soap would convert the characters incorrectly.

Does anyone have an idea ?

thanks for any help

Thorsten

Message was edited by: Thorsten Stork

Message was edited by: Thorsten Stork

[Former Member]

Hi Thorsten,

Did you ever find a solution for the IDoc encoding?

I am faced with the same issue myself in PI 7.3

Regards,

Treasure

[udo_martens]

Hi Torsten,

if you only want to change the prolog attriute value from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 then just execute a simple ABAP mapping:

Create a string with function ecatt_conv_xstring_to_string.

Replace with normal ABAP.

Create again XSTRING with function ecatt_conv_string_to_xstring

Regards,

Udo

[Former Member]

Stork

Check this urls and configure accordingly:

SAP Notes: 821267

---Mohan

[Former Member]

> Stork

>

> Check this urls and configure accordingly:

>

>

> adID=111712&messageID=1245987

> SAP Notes: 821267

>

> adID=128690&messageID=1439108

>

> ---Mohan

Hi,

thanks for it, but there is a way described for the JMS Adapter and not a solution for the incoming IDOC adapter(sender).

If you have a solution that I can solve it at the receiver soap adapter, it would beok for me. But I could not conclude to the solution from the JMS Adapter to an other one,sorry.

Regards

Thorsten

[bhavesh_kantilal]

hi,

change the encoding of <xml version ... > to ,

<b>ISO-8859-1</b>.

UTF-8 does not recognise those special characters.

Regards,

Bhavesh

[Former Member]

hi,

yes, I know that the encoding in the xml-tag must be "ISO-8859-1", but how can I do this ?

The XML-message will be created by the incoming IDOC adapter, so where can I change this?

Is there a parameter or something else for the incoming IDOC adapter to achieve this?

Regards

Thorsten

[Former Member]

Hi Thorsten,

Your SAP R/3 system has to be Unicode complaint for them to handle this data.

IF the data is coming from file to R/3 then you can give the correct encoding (ISO-8859-1) in the file adapter and it will handle the data.

Hope in your TCP/IP connections like AI_RUNTIME_JCOSERVER etc you have mentioned unicode in special option tab.

Regards

Vijaya

Message was edited by: vijaya kumari

[Former Member]

> Hi Thorsten,

>

> Your SAP R/3 system has to be Unicode complaint for

> them to handle this data.

>

> IF the data is coming from file to R/3 then you can

> give the correct encoding (ISO-8859-1) in the file

> adapter and it will handle the data.

>

> Hope in your TCP/IP connections like

> AI_RUNTIME_JCOSERVER etc you have mentioned unicode

> in special option tab.

>

>

> Regards

> Vijaya

>

>

> Message was edited by: vijaya kumari

Hi,

as I mentioned the SAP R/3 is a 4.6c and there is no option for unicode in the RFC-destinations.

for AI_RUNTIME_JCOSERVER the unicode is activated.

But we get the message via IDOC so the file adpter doesn not help.

Regards

Thorsten

[Former Member]

HI Thorsten,

Please see this pdf if its of any help

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ebc90899-0701-0010-ce98-e80...

Also, I hope your LCRSAPRFC and SAPSLDAPI TCP/IP are defined as unicode in both ABPA and Java stack.

Regards

Vijaya