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topic Re: Wrong Characters returned by the WebService in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028538#M83082 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I solved it by converting the code-page in the return of the webservice call...</P><P></P><PRE><CODE> * After receive the return from the WebService, * move the result to the string wf_string1. clear wf_string1 . wf_string1 = http_client->response->get_cdata( ). * Some variables data: conv type ref to cl_abap_conv_in_ce, wf_stringx type xstring, viewoff type ref to cl_abap_view_offlen, len type i, content type string. * Convert the return string of the webservice to Hexadecimal call function 'SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING' exporting text = wf_string1 mimetype = '' importing buffer = wf_stringx. * call the method to convert UTF-8(Code-page 4110) to ISO-8859-1(1100) conv = cl_abap_conv_in_ce=>create( encoding = '4110' endian = 'L' input = wf_stringx ). * Read the conversion result conv->read( exporting view = viewoff importing data = content len = len ). * Result string... wf_string1 = content. </CODE></PRE><P></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:59:12 GMT Former Member 2005-12-08T18:59:12Z Wrong Characters returned by the WebService https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028536#M83080 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi! </P><P></P><P>I have an scenario where i have one RFC Function module that call a WebService (Java/EJB) that brings the information from a Oracle DB. The RFC parse the results and populate my return tables.</P><P></P><P>When i call the WebService from wsnavigator in portal(http://url:port/wsnavigator), it returns the words with the special characters OK, eg: "Pend<B></B></P><P>ê</P>ncia".<BR />But, when i call the WebService from the RFC Module in ABAP, using the interface if_http_client to make the WebService Call, it returns bogus characters, eg: "PendÃªncia".<BR />So, if my table in Oracle DB have the word "Pendência", the RFC call result will be "Pend<B><P>Ãª</P></B>ncia". The same happens with the following characters: áéíóúãàòìùäëïöüãõâêîôûçñ...<P></P><P></P><P>This situation only happens when i call the WebService from ABAP using the interface if_http_client, and it looks like the charset is wrong, but when i set the header of the HTTP REQUEST, i set the charset to iso-8859-1, as follows:</P><P></P><P>-</P><P>-</P><HR originaltext="--------------------------" /><P>...</P><P></P><P> CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field</P><P> EXPORTING</P><P> name = '~request_method'</P><P> value = 'POST'.</P><P></P><P> CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field</P><P> EXPORTING</P><P> name = '~server_protocol'</P><P> value = 'HTTP/1.1'.</P><P></P><P> CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field</P><P> EXPORTING</P><P> name = 'Content-Type'</P><P> value = 'text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1;'.</P><P></P><P> CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field</P><P> EXPORTING</P><P> name = 'Content-Length'</P><P> value = txlen.</P><P></P><P> CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field</P><P> EXPORTING</P><P> name = 'SOAPAction'</P><P> value = ''.</P><P></P><P>...</P><P></P><P></P><P>-</P><P>-</P><HR originaltext="--------------------------" /><P></P><P></P><P>Any idea?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance.</P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:56:49 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028536#M83080 Former Member 2005-10-18T17:56:49Z Re: Wrong Characters returned by the WebService https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028537#M83081 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>May be you don't have the right code page. I am not an expert, but check on that aspect with your basis administrators.</P><P></P><P>Here is the documentation related to code pages.</P><P></P><P></P><P>SAP character set identification</P><P></P><P>Definition</P><P>The 4-character name of an SAP character set as defined</P><P>in SAP character set maintenance.</P><P></P><P>The following explains the naming convention in more detail:</P><P></P><P>First digit: Code</P><P></P><P>0 EBCDIC character sets </P><P>1 ASCII character sets </P><P>2 mixed single byte / double byte character sets </P><P>4 double-byte character sets </P><P>6 mixed character sets </P><P>8 double byte and multibyte character sets </P><P>9 reserved for code pages you define </P><P> </P><P></P><P>Second digit: Country</P><P></P><P>1-3 countries that use the Latin alphabet (Western Europe, North and South America, Australia, Africa)</P><P>4-6 countries that use non-Latin alphabets and writing</P><P>systems (Eastern Europe, Asia, Arabic countries in Africa) </P><P>7-9 reserved for special languages </P><P></P><P>Third and fourth digits: Sequential number</P><P></P><P>Example</P><P>0100 IBM 00697/00273 (Latin 1 - Germany/Austria)</P><P>0401 SNI BS2000 8859-5 EHCLC (cyrillic - multiple languages)</P><P></P><P>The table is TCP00.</P><P></P><P>Message was edited by: Srinivas Adavi</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:51:23 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028537#M83081 Former Member 2005-10-18T19:51:23Z Re: Wrong Characters returned by the WebService https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028538#M83082 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I solved it by converting the code-page in the return of the webservice call...</P><P></P><PRE><CODE> * After receive the return from the WebService, * move the result to the string wf_string1. clear wf_string1 . wf_string1 = http_client->response->get_cdata( ). * Some variables data: conv type ref to cl_abap_conv_in_ce, wf_stringx type xstring, viewoff type ref to cl_abap_view_offlen, len type i, content type string. * Convert the return string of the webservice to Hexadecimal call function 'SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING' exporting text = wf_string1 mimetype = '' importing buffer = wf_stringx. * call the method to convert UTF-8(Code-page 4110) to ISO-8859-1(1100) conv = cl_abap_conv_in_ce=>create( encoding = '4110' endian = 'L' input = wf_stringx ). * Read the conversion result conv->read( exporting view = viewoff importing data = content len = len ). * Result string... wf_string1 = content. </CODE></PRE><P></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:59:12 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/wrong-characters-returned-by-the-webservice/m-p/1028538#M83082 Former Member 2005-12-08T18:59:12Z