topic Problem with encoding in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Problem with encoding

Former Member — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:36:20 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm an ABAP developer since 2008 and recently I decided to learn ABAP on eclipse.

I was able to do the installation and to start developing but I've been struggling with the fact that i'm portuguese and I've made my code comments in my native tongue, that have a lot of characters like á, â, ã. For example the word "férias". Now when I open this code in eclipse all of these characters are "destroyed", in the example "f�rias".

So, when I click save it gives me an exception, ExceptionResourceCharacterSetNotAcceptable.

I've tried changing the encoding in some places but with no success.

Is there any other way to solve this problem?

Kind regards,

Fábio Galvão

Re: Problem with encoding

thomasalexander_ritter — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:33:51 GMT

Hi Fábio,

the exception can happen for multiple reasons. As a first step please check if your JVM is running with UTF-8 as the default charset. The note 1810699 describes how to start Eclipse using this default.

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1810699

Have a look at step 1.

cheers

Thomas

Re: Problem with encoding

Former Member — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:56:03 GMT

Hi Thomas,

I've tried this but with no luck, it's still throwing the exception.

One question, shouldn't the encoding be UTF-16BE?

Thanks,

Fábio

Re: Problem with encoding

thomasalexander_ritter — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:06:20 GMT

Hi Fábio,

the ABAP in Eclipse architecture uses UTF-8 on the client and on the server side.

In order to better understand the problem I would like to have a look at your system. Can you please open an OSS message, thanks.

cheers

Thomas

Re: Problem with encoding

Former Member — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:16:43 GMT

Hi Thomas,

I only found out now that the my client's ERP is still a non Unicode system.

So i'm guessing that might be the cause of the problem, right?

Thanks,

Fábio

Re: Problem with encoding

daniel_ruiz2 — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:48:23 GMT

Hi Fabio,

I'm assuming your ABAP system does accept ISO-8859-1 characters - but as soon you download the source into Eclipse, the workspace is using a different character set, reason why it cannot render such character.

Can you try:

- Top Menu, Window, Preferences

- Expand 'General' and select 'Workspace'

- Text File Enconding, select 'Other' and 'ISO-8859-1'

Restart Eclipse and check if the the issue is resolved.

Hope it helps,

Daniel