Data transfer between non unicode systems with different languages

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Currently we are live in our HR systems in NL, FR and languages installed are NL,FR in our systems. We are non unicode systems in SAP_BASIS rel 701 SP 05 and EHP4 SP 23 in HR.

We have SAP HR in our Nordic systems as well ( separate systems) and we would like them to use our systems after

some necessary adjustment and data transfer.We have to get some Master data from our SAP nordic systems and they are also non unicode but on SAP_BASIS 700 SP 19 and on EHP3 SP 33 for HR. The languages installed in these systems is Swedish and Norwegian.

The question is :

- How can we have Swedish and Norwegian characters in our SAP systems? Do we need to install these languages? example is - when a Swedish person types an address, there can be some Swedish charachers in that. How can we acheive that in our EU systems where we only have FR and NL installed and following code pages

installed :

1100 Code Page of Application Server

1160 Code Page of SAP GUI

I noticed that they are also non-unicode and have common codepage 1100. Does it mean that we can have RFC created to these systems and transfer data ? do we need to do some conversation to have special characters in their language displayed correctly?

- There are also questions about moving "transports" between these systems. As these are different SAP releases, we cannot do that.

Can you please help answer these questions ?

[Former Member]

Yes there shouldn't be a problem with RFC's from one system to another as they are both non-unicode & scp systems (1100).

Check this sap note: 73606 - Supported Languages and Code Pages, to get an idea of the language support for non-unicode systems. And also the attachment to this note "Supportedlanguages2.zip" to see the languages supported in codepage 1100.

You can activate all these languages in transaction I18N, for further details check the above sap note.

- Regards, Dibya