Character Changing in IDOC

[Former Member]

Hi,

There is a scenario IDOC -> PI -> JMS. When the data comes into PI from IDOC, one character gets unwantedly converted.

IDOC_FIELD = Pankaj's Address (as seen in SAP ECC system)

IDOC_FIELD = Pankaj#s Address (as seen in SAP PI - SXMB_MONI)

Can anyone tell me why is this happening in PI and how should this be avoided?

I do not want to make use of ReplaceString option as this does not seem to be a good option.

Thanks

Pankaj.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have you seen unicode setting enabled in the rfc destination used. from ECC to PI ..check once ...

May be that can also be the cause..

Regards

Rajesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It is not set to Unicode; should I change it to Unicode. I basically want to avoid similar type of character conversions (only English language will come in IDOC).

Thanks

Pankaj.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes you need to enable the unicode setting....

you can check whether PI system is unicode or not by going to the system-status menu option...

HTH

Rajesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI Pankaj ,

Change the encoding to Unicode It will resolved the provlem I have faced exactly same issue and got resolved when changed the encoding to unicode in RFC destination .

Regards,

Saurabh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

go to SM59 - ABAP connection - select MDMP & Unicode and select unicode for RFC destination.

chirag

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Pankaj,

I assume the system where the IDOC is created is Non-Unicode (based on ISO-8859-1).

The PI system is based on Unicode by default.

Hence the system has to convert the textual data in the IDOC from ISO-8859-1 to Unicode.

However there are many variants of apostrophes (or symbols displayed in a similar way) in computer systems.

On Microsoft Windows CP1252 there are at least 3. Please have a look at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/cc305145

27 = U+0027 : APOSTROPHE

91 = U+2018 : LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

92 = U+2019 : RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

U+0027 is available in all code pages.

But U2018 / U2019 are available in MS CP1252 only (and not on ISO-8859-1).

Therefore I assume you are using one of these Non-supported symbol and in the interface this symbol is converted to #.

Possible solutions:

1) Use U+0027 only as apostrophe

2) Convert the source system to Unicode

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

I agree with Nils reply

Possible solutions:
1) Use U+0027 only as apostrophe
2) Convert the source system to Unicode

Check this [link|http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/27/index.htm]

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Thank you for the replies!

I assume the system where the IDOC is created is Non-Unicode

I logged into the source SAP R3 system using SAP Logon and checked the Status; in the status there was an entry like Unicode -- Yes (similar entry is available for SAP PI). Does this mean that both PI and R3 system are Unicode?

As mentioned by Rajesh I have made an entry into the RFC Destination of SAP PI for Unicode and this seems to be partially working.

If I use the existing value like Pankaj's Address in the IDOC, then the result in PI is still Pankaj#s Address -> WRONG

However if I use a new value like User's Address in the IDOC then the result in PI is User's Address -> CORRECT

I have deleted and re-imported the IDOC metadata into PI but still facing the issue for old values.

Please Help.

Thanks

Pankaj.

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Pankaj,

if both systems are based on Unicode and on both sides this is also set in SM59, I do not know of any reason why the transfer should fail ...

In this case I would recommend to raise a customer message ...

Best regards,

Nils