Special character conversion problem from a 3rd party system to SAP GUI

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are facing some issues in special characters. We are actually having an 3rd party system where we will transfer data to SAP from 3rd party system. But while transferring some special characters are reading improperly in SAP. Eg character æ while reading in SAP it is reading as œ. Also the 3rd party system is non-unicode and SAP is unicode system.  We already tried many ways but we didn't able to find the solution. Please help us is there problem with non-unicode to unicode problem or any SAP note is available for this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Kannan S

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Kannan,

in order to find out the problem it would be necessary to have more details:

What kind of interface do you use ?

What is the code page the 3rd party system is based on ?

Is the problem with æ and œ the only one - or are there more incorrect characters ?

Which logon language do you use when interfacing with the system ?
Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

[Former Member]

Hi Nils,

  We will transfer the data from 3rd party system to SAP through jobs and data will get stored in unix directory in SAP and we will transfer to SAP.

3rd party system is having non-unicode.

Problem for these special characters æ, ø, å.

We will use logon language as English while interfacing.

Please help me out on how to correct this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kannan S

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Kannan,

1) in the first place you should analyze which code page is used for the file (what is the encoding ?). This info should be provided by the 3rd party software vendor (If this is not possible, HEX editors can be used to get this info).

2) Once you have it, you need to find out how data is uploaded to the SAP system. See http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_702/en/abapopen_dataset_mode.htm for the different options.

This probably needs to be adapted based on 1).

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel