' is coming as # in PDF output

[Former Member]

Hi All ,

I have a issue in smartform , when i try too see the PDF output ,

in it there is a text

'TEXT IS HERE '

but it coming like this

#TEXT IS HERE#

Any suggestions why it is happening .

thanks in advance

rahul

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Rahul,

please have a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curved_quotes#Quotation_marks_in_English

You probably do a copy & paste from MS documents, which support curved quotes.

In a Unicode system and if you use the device types as proposed by Aidan, this is no problem.

In a Non-Unicode system however, these symbols are not supported, as the system code page is ISO based (e.g. ISO-8859-1 for Western European languages).

Please also have a look at SAP note 382285 for details (it describes the same issue on the front end side).

As an alternative in Non-Unicode, you could replace the curved quotes by the single quote (U+0027) - ( Result: ' Text '). This symbol is supported in all systems.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

Edited by: Nils Buerckel on Nov 3, 2010 3:43 PM

Edited by: Nils Buerckel on Nov 3, 2010 3:45 PM

[aidan_black]

Hi Rahul,

Which device type do you use for the PDF conversion in SAP? If you use Unicode cascading fonts device type PDFUC or SWINCF(see SAP note #999712), then the character should be correct.

Regards,

Aidan