Business Object 4.0 Russian and Turkish Character

[Former Member]

We have installed language pack for Russian/Turkish as well as other east-european langauge pack on BO server

Still russian, turkish and Greek characters are not displayed correctly by Business Object Webi infoview.

Special characters are displayed as ¿ . letter д does come  corerctly.

I have changed or tried chaning  Product Locale: / Preferred Viewing Locale:  to Russian but not helping.

please suggest browser setting or any other setting we have to do to display such characters correctly

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Lalit,

Have you added the required fonts in fontalias.xml and i18n.xml files?

the location for fontalias.xml is as follows:

-<installation directory>/Program Files(x86)/SAP BusinessObjects/SAP

BusinessObjects Enterprise XI4.0/ win32_x86/fonts

the location of i18n.xml is as follows:

<installation directory>/Program Files(x86)/SAP

BusinessObjects/SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI4.0/ win32_x86/Scripts

In i18n.xml, add the code for font to the bottom of the <font_aliasing> section

just above the default section

below is an example:

<font name="Arial Unicode MS">

<os type="all">

<Attributs style="0" filename="arialuni.ttf"

encoding=""aliaspsname="Arial Unicode MS"/>

</os>

</font>

Please do take backup of both the files before making any changes.

Restart your application server and check the issue.

Regards,

Yuvraj

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks,. do I need to change or make any webi preference setting as well to display such characters in Webi panel.  I remember for Chinese character display we have to change preference?

[Henry_Banks · Accepted solution]

depends which preference you mean: the translated language interface, or the regional preferences (decimal seperator, date format etc) .

either way, this won't be affecting the data transcoding from the database.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Lalit,

The Preferences are set to enforce region or locale specific formats for number, currency, date/time, etc.

For example:

If you set your locale to Bulgaria, the formats will be as follows:

Number will be displayed like 123 456 789

Date will be displayed like dd.MM.yyyy and so on

In short, the locale settings should not affect your font but your formats.

Regards,

Yuvraj

[Henry_Banks]

Hi,

Have you installed the universal unicode fonts for ms office, followed by installing the language options (from control panel) ?  This needs to be done on both client and servers, follow by a reboot. etc

you will then need to verify the Unicode string parameter in the respective PRM and SBO files.

regards
H

[Former Member]

My machine and BO server both have Unicode font installed. do you know where can I check PRM and SBO file where are they found

[Henry_Banks]

Hi,

sure, their on your BO server, under the \connectionServer\  installation directory.

Maybe take a look at the 'data access' help guide: http://help.sap.com/bobip#section5

Regards,

H

[Former Member]

Thanks,. do I need to change or make any webi preference setting as well to display such characters in Webi panel.  I remember for Chinese character display we have to change preference?