# signs instead of polish letters ą, ę etc. after SAP upgrade.

[Former Member]

I am not sure that it is connected with SAP upgrade see my another topic on SCN Rabax during sap gui login

Do you know what could be the reason and is it reversible? Maybe there are some settings in SAP editor?

It is nonunicode ECC 6.0 EHP6 (after upgrade). Before upgrade it was ECC 5.0.

Thanks in advance.

QAS

[Former Member]

The problem is that on DEV system during the upgrade SUM could not start shadow instance so I run:

update SAPQASSHD.TCP0C set locale='de_DE.ISO8859-15' where platform='SunOS' and country=' ' and langu ='E';

Then it started and upgrade was performed. However after upgrade in programs you can see # signs instead of polish signs ą, ę etc. Programs displayed letters correctly. The only problem is the code of programs. Do you think it was caused by using locale 'de_DE.ISO8859-15'.

[ACE-SAP]

Hello

Yes this might be the cause, ABAP use to display '#' when not able to interpret a character.

Why did you update TCP0C, was it based on an OSS note, a support message ?

What is the locale on your server ?

Have you tried setting back TCP0C to its original values ?

Regards

[Former Member]

I had not locale en_US on the server. I have installed them but it did not helped. So I followed one of SAP note and change TCP0C then the shadow instance started.

[nils_buerckel]

Hi,

which languages  are used in the system ?

Polish is mapped to ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2 or number 1401 in SAP notation). However if Western European languages are also used in the system, a Unicode conversion would be mandatory (maybe CU&UC in your case).

See also SAP note 73606.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

[Former Member]

You maybe right. But I do not know how to determine that it was mandatory in this case.

[nils_buerckel]

Hi,

Looking at the thread:

Rabax during sap gui login

it seems you have changed entries in TCPDB from 1401 to 1100.

This would explain your problem.

I would recommend to do a proper setup via report rscpinst.

Therefore you need to know how the system was setup before the upgrade.

If it was single code page with 1401, you need to maintain the used languages and the country field according to SAP note 43205 (the country setting can be found in table TCP0D in the old system).

Best regards,

Nils

[Former Member]

whereas there is tcp 1401 1401.

[Former Member]

At the end of the line there is a "LINK" to transation (010) and there the text looks ok "Proszę podać datę zawarcia umowy".

[Former Member]

not transaction but translation (010).

[ACE-SAP]

Hi

Looks more like a problem related to Unicode / Code page...

Check with report RSCPINST if the system is configured as non unicode.

The here under note will help you to solve this out.

42305 - RSCPINST (I18N configuration tool)

Regards

[Reagan]

Language Supplementation.

Regards

RB

[Former Member]

It is rather not the problem.