SAP Console and Chinese Simplified? Is this possible?

[Former Member]

Hello all!

Looking for some guidance/assistance.

We have a situation where we are extending our use of SAP Console to China.

In particular, we would like to allow the users to view Chinese Simplified Characters on their RF handheld menus.

Our current configuration is, as follows:

(1) RF Handheld running language build of UTF-8 client.

(2) Telnet Server (Georgia Softworks)

(3) SAP Console (sapcnsl.exe) running on windows.

One option is to abandon SAP Console, and use Web SAP Console.

We are looking into that option.

Before doing so, we wanted to positively confirm whether or not it is possible to emulate Chinese characters via SAP Console, and GSW through to our RF handhelds.

Does anyone else have a similar configuration?

Is anyone else doing this successfully for Chinese Simplified via the console based version of SAP Console?

We have been unsuccessful in all attempts to configure and get this working.

Have run across a very puzzling OSS note: 785091

This note does NOT directly come out and say that any specific language is NOT supported for use with SAP Console...(i.e. Chinese Simplified). But it leaves you to figure this out on your own.

So, we had found a microsoft KB article: 247815

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247815/en-us

Following this article, we were unable to come up with a TTF Chinese Simplified font that would allow us to view Chinese characters in the command prompt.

I'm guessing that what we are trying to do is not possible...although it's not clearly spelled out anywhere.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Best Regards,

Chris Cassidy

[Former Member]

see previous post for resolution.

[Former Member]

Well....a month later, and thanks to a local Symbol technical guru, we got this working.

We were going down a dead end, but it took getting our local guru to help us reach this conclusion.

Basically, if you use Symbol devices running Windows CE 5.0, then there is no platform language build available for Chinese Traditional. Sure wish that we would've figured this out on our first Motorola/Symbol support call, instead of a month later.

However, if you use Symbol devices running Windows Mobile 5.0+, then you have hope. The rest of this article will describe the steps to enable this functionality.

In our environment, we have the following:

(a) Symbol 9090g devices running Windows Mobile 5.0

(b) SAP ECC 5.0 (SP18 - Basis/Abap).

(c) Georgia Softworks Telnet Server (version 7.0)

(d) Sap Console (version 6.40 SP24). NOTE: Do not install version 7.00, as there is no sapcnsl.exe available with the SAP GUI version 7.0. Found this out the hard way. It's supposedly coming...but, not with the first release of 7.0.

<u><b>Windows Server configuration:</b></u>

(1) Install and register Georgia Softworks.

(2) Install SAP Gui 6.40, SP24.

(3) Start up SAPConsole (Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> SAP Console Administrator.

(4) Create a new SAP Console entry, and point it to your respective SAP Gui logon pad SAP system under the "Connection" tab.

(5) Open up the "Console" tab, click on the "Code Page By Number" radio button, and enter 936. See following link for code page mappings between SAP and Windows: http://help.sap.com/javadocs/NW04/current/um/com/sap/security/api/ticket/InfoUnit.html

(6) Save your changes.

(7) Next, you will need to update the c_start.bat file in your GSW startup script to include the following. The important settings are "gwtn_graphics=6" for UTF-8, and the SAP_CODEPAGE=8400. Depending upon the logon language (see link in step (5)), this variable can be adjusted accordingly (i.e. Polish = 1404).

set gwtn_term=1

set gwtn_graphics=6

set gwtn_color=0

set gwtn_reconnect=auto_by_user_and_ip

set gwtn_reconnect_timeout=90

set gwtn_ctrl_c_mode=event

d:

cd \

cd "Program Files\SAP\Frontend\SAPgui\websapconsole"

SET SAP_CODEPAGE=8400

sapcnsl -p KEG_D10_ZH -l ZH

That's it for the backend/server configuration.

<u><b>On the RF handheld, you will need to do the following:</b></u>

(1) Open up IE, and navigate to Symbol/Motorola:

http://support.symbol.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=10600&sliceId=&dialo...

(2) Download the Chinese Application build

9090w50LcpULA013300.zip Chinese Simplified with Application Partition

28.7 Mb

(3) Reflash your symbol WM 5.0 device with this build.

(4) Open up IE, and navigate to the following WaveLink (Telnet Client). Depending upon your licensing agreements with the use of the WaveLink client, you may be able to use the 6.1.00 version. We were required to use the 5.11-43 version.

http://www.wavelink.com/download/Downloads.aspx?DownloadFile=5200

5.11-431/15/2007Wavelink Emulation Client for the Symbol 9090 WM 5.0

(6) After installation of the Wavelink client on your desktop, configure your host profile. Click on the "Language" TAB, and specify: "Chinese, Simplified - CP936" for the Display language, and specify: "UTF-8 Unicode" for the Server language.