One Receiver channel - multiple code pages

[former_member181962]

Hi experts,

   I have an IDOC to FILE interface, where-in the source can send data that includes Western European characters as well as Chinese characters.

To handle the Wetern European characters, i have set the encoding to ISO-8859-1, but it obviously did not work for Chinese characters.

What should be the encoding to handle both cases?

Best Regards,
Ravikanth Talagana

[former_member184681]

Hi Ravi,

Actually what you mentioned is what Unicode was developed for. Other encodings like ISO are rather "local" - they only handle some specific set of characters, normally typical to a country or region. In contrary, Unicode was invented to contain characters of different coutries, languages and regions. So, UTF-8 should be the answer for you. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Regards,

Greg

[former_member181962]

Hi Greg,

    As far as I know, i always thought that that would be the default encoding for the file receiver adapter.

But when i specify nothing, i am not able to see the european characters.

Let me try explicitly specifying UTF-8 and see if that works.

Best Regards,

Ravikanth Talagana

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

I think by default SAP PI uses UTF-8 unicode. File adapters also does the same. you might want to check this link

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/index?rid=/webcontent/uuid/70d8e250-e892-2b10-ab8a-d04433cf158b

[former_member181962]

I have tested using TEXT/ Encoding as UTF-8 and it does not show japanese characters.

Any suggestions?