Handling special charecters in sap pi 7.11

[Former Member]

Hi All ,

I have a scenario in which we are using  web services and proxy .

ECC>>(Proxy)>> PI >>(Web services)>> Non SAP system .

I am getting issue while sending a long text from ECC containing some special characters like '&'  ' < ' and ' ,'  . XML is convering

&  =    <(>&<)>

,   =     <(>,<)> and

< =     <(><<)>

we can see these xml changes in SPROXY test mode . Screen shot of the same is also attached for more details.

Can you please let me know how to handle these special characters , do I need to create any UDF in mapping or is there there any other way  ?

[Former Member]

Thanks for the help !

Issue  has been resolved now .We were getting the issue while getting long text from ECC in proxy .

I have handled the issue with abap code in the proxy that

       REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '<(>,<)>' IN lwa_line-TDLINE WITH ','.

       REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '<(>&<)>' IN lwa_line-TDLINE WITH '&'.

       REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '<(><<)>' IN lwa_line-TDLINE WITH '<'.

Thanks again for your time and help .

Ashish Gaur .

[naveen_chichili]

Great Ashish...

[Former Member]

Can anyone please help me out .

[Dimitri]

Can you share your configuration on both SAP ECC and SAP PI?

This really should not be a problem using all the hints provided in this thread.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

These are details of config . Scenario is Synchronos .

Non SAP system    <SOAP>      PI     <Proxy>      ECC

1. At ECC end (Adapter: XI).

2. At Non SAP system end (Adapter : SOAP).

Using UTF-8 encoding and Unicode system .

Please help .

Thanks and Regards,

Ashish .

[Dimitri]

What system is the trigger? SAP ECC or the non-sap one?

What about RFC connections? Are they ok? Check SM59 on both SAP PI and SAP ECC.

Perhaps you can share that too?

Check OSS note 856597 and do a search on encoding.

[Former Member]

We are getting the issue while sending text from ECC.

[Dimitri]

Did you check the OSS note?

Can you test the proxy via SPROXY and provide the result and input data?

[Former Member]

Changed the settings as Unicode but still getting the issue .

" test long text<(>,<)>* @#$%<(>&<)>* <(><<)>* <(>,<)   "

[ambrish_mishra]

Have you changed the settings for type H connection from the back-end ECC system?

That's the one to be used in proxy.

Ambrish

[Former Member]

Hi Ambrish,

I checked the settings , its type H connection only .

Thanks ,

Ashish .

[Dimitri]

Hi,

Make sure you use UTF-8 encoding in communication channels and RFC connections.

Also, take a look at the backend and see if unicode is enabled.

Kind regards,

Dimitri

[Former Member]

Hi Dimitri ,

Thanks for the help .

But I am already using UTF-8 encoding .

[Dimitri]

Very strange the characters are not passed successfully

Or are they just displayed incorrectly?

[Former Member]

No , the characters are not passing correctly .

[Dimitri]

Is your SAP ECC system unicode enabled? I guess yes?

Check your ABAP proxy setup and make sure UTF-8 encoding is enabled in the complete message flow.

[naveen_chichili]

Hi Ashish,

Try Applying file encoding to ISO-8859-1 in the channels it will work.

Thanks,

Naveen

[Former Member]

Hi Naveen ,

Tried ISO-8859-1 during test in SOAP UI , but getting same response .

Thanks ,

Ashish Gaur

[Former Member]

Hi Dimitri ,

I can see that my ECC system is unicode but in SM59 of my ECC system it is marked as Non-unicode system as shown in screen shot :

So is it fine or do we need to set up this one as Unicode .

Please help .

Thanks ,

Ashish Gaur .

[ambrish_mishra]

Needs to be set up as unicode. It won't work without that.

Ambrish

[Dimitri]

Hi,

Please do set is as Unicode.

Kind regards,

Dimitri

[Former Member]

Sorry Its PI 7.1 .