topic Re: character or byte mode? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

character or byte mode?

Former Member — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:51:03 GMT

when will we use IN CHARACTER MODE & IN BYTE MODE in DESCRIBE querry?

Re: character or byte mode?

Former Member — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:55:28 GMT

Hi,

It is used to determine the length of of a data object.

when you find the length in byte go for BYTE mode

when you find the length in character go for CHARACTER mode.

REMEMBER: both mode comes only with length addtion.

REF: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb3145358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

REGARDS,

ANIRBAN

Re: character or byte mode?

Former Member — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:00:05 GMT

Hi ,

It is a new addition in the unicode enable SAP versions , that basically asks how you want to calculate the length of the field either in byte mode or in character mode.

Regards

Arun

Re: character or byte mode?

Former Member — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:00:31 GMT

Hello

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/79/c5548eb3dc11d5993800508b6b8b11/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb3145358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

Re: character or byte mode?

rainer_hbenthal — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:57:48 GMT

This is relevant in unicode environments. The number of chars may not correspond to the number of bytes used. Espacially when you are using national characters, the byte number is often more then the character number because a national character needs up to 4 bytes in unicode. So you have 1 character but 4 bytes (or three or two depoending on the encoding).