Special symbols in catalog

[Former Member]

Guys, can someone pls confirm whether the special symbols like "@" or "TM" etc in the punch out catalog is controlled by supplier site or we can config it to skip while transferring it to our system.

The isssue i am facing is those fields get transferred to shopping cart as junk char like &trade, etc. And PO seems to have these characters too. Please suggest me how to skip it in our doc.

Regards

TGB

[Former Member]

Thanks.

[masa_139]

Hi,

Which encoding/charset in external supplier catalog? Is it UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 or others?

Do you use any BYPASS_INB_HANDLER parameter in catalog call structure?

I think it is related with character encoding URL or HTML topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

You can delete or replace character in BBP_CATALOG_TRANSFER BADI.

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member]

Masa,

It is UTF-8 charset, we dont use this parameter in the call structure. We can control it thru BADI, but the issue is that another Supplier Catalog dont hv this issue which also hv special char in their site.

Pls suggest.

Regards

Ganesh

[masa_139]

Hi,

If you have httpWatch tool, please compare http post data from those 2 suppliers.

What is difference? Check point is characters are encoded from supplier side or not.

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member]

Masa, Can you suggest some tool to check this. So is it ideally controled by supplier or any parameter we can use in the call structure to control these special char.?

Regards

Ganesh

[masa_139]

I use a tool called "httpWatch" for http trace.