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code page

Former Member — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:35:45 GMT

hello!

can anyone please explain what is code page?

I came across a problem, while opening dataset in text mode,

i use the command transfer few times, but instead of getting few lines in the file i get a string of all the lines.

I was told to use code page, is that the solution?

regards

yifat

Re: code page

Former Member — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:05:50 GMT

Hi,

Code page is used for double byte characters. i.e. if your file content has non-english characters then you need to specify the Code page in OPEN DATASET for input in TEXT mode CODE PAGE '8000'.

You can ask your BASIS team for Code-page for the language you are using.

Best regards,

Prashant

Re: code page

seshatalpasai_madala — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:09:29 GMT

Hi,

Code page means:

Mapping of selected characters (character set) onto bit sequences. For example, Latin1 ( ISO-8859-1) represents a code page that contains all the characters required for Western European languages, while a Unicode character representation can display all the characters required across the globe. The way in which characters are displayed in an internal session is determined by the active system code page for the text environment in the internal session. Each code page supported by SAP is assigned an SAP code page number in the database table TCP00.

Regards,

Sesh