topic Re: Messy code for Chinese in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Messy code for Chinese

Former Member — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:47:31 GMT

Hi all, I want to upload vendor master data to SAP system in LSMW, but when I fill the fields in Chinese, the Chinese texts will not be showed. The Chinese texts show as messy codes, how should I do if I want to show the Chinese? Many thanks in advance!

Re: Messy code for Chinese

Former Member — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:32:43 GMT

Is your SAP system Unicode?

What is the format of the upload file? UTF-8?

Re: Messy code for Chinese

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:51:08 GMT

Yes, the SAP system is Unicode, and the file type is .TXT.

Re: Messy code for Chinese

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:52:32 GMT

Many thanks for your help, After I change the coding of the text file from default value 'ANSI' to 'UTF-8', the Chinese can be showed, would please tell me the reason? Why I should use 'UTF-8'?

Re: Messy code for Chinese

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:33:44 GMT

ANSI only supports the standard 256 characters you see on your typical keyboard (single byte). UTF-8 supports the 65,536 Unicode character set (double byte) needed to handle all the different languages used throughout the world. If you send Unicode but tell the system to expect ANSI it will read each double byte Unicode character as two single byte ANSI characters. Which will turn it all into gibberish.