ASCII file type with codepage conversion

Former Member — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 06:27:26 GMT

Hi,

My requirement is to download text file in ASCII file format and there is chinese character which also has to be consider.

For this i am using GUI DOWNLOAD------> file type ASCII--------> codepage '4110'.

CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'

    EXPORTING
      filename                  = l_file_name
      filetype                  = 'ASC'
      trunc_trailing_blanks     = ' '
      trunc_trailing_blanks_eol = ' '

write_field_separator = 'X'
codepage = '4110'

     write_bom                 = 'X'
    TABLES
      data_tab                  = gt_output.

when i use code page as '4110' it wont convert file type as ASCII.

kindly help.

Re: ASCII file type with codepage conversion

Former Member — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 07:04:04 GMT

Do not try to create ascii format file.

Chinese characters will be lost. Try binary format and unicode encoding.

As a simple test, open Notepad, paste chinese characters and try saving it as ascii text.

You will get warning that characters will be lost.

If you ignore the warning and save, reopening the file won't show you correct characters.

EDIT: Comment out the filetype = 'ASC' line and retry.

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