How to find whether a file is ANSI or UTF-8

[Former Member]

Hello ALL,

I get data in binary format. Based on the data in the internal table, I need to convert it into UTF-8.

I want to convery only the data which are ANSI.

means.

first case: i get the data in ansi. i will convert it into utf-8.

second case. i get the data in utf-8. i will not convert this data.

is there any method from which I can identify from the binary data, that the current data is in ANSI format or UTF-8 format.

Please help.

[Former Member]

Please tell Mukul, that if he uses 2 user ID's to duplicate post questions... then we will randomly delete one of the two user ID's...

Thanks,

Julius

[rainer_hbenthal]

Binary data is not stored in ANSI nor in UTF-8.

[Former Member]

I used the following method to find out.....

OPEN DATASET app_sr FOR OUTPUT IN BINARY MODE.

LOOP AT lt_ascii INTO ls_ascii.

TRANSFER ls_ascii TO app_sr.

ENDLOOP.

CLOSE DATASET app_sr.

COMMIT WORK.

TRY.

CALL METHOD cl_abap_file_utilities=>check_utf8

EXPORTING

file_name = app_sr

IMPORTING

encoding = encoding.

CATCH cx_sy_file_open .

CATCH cx_sy_file_authority .

CATCH cx_sy_file_io .

ENDTRY.

DELETE DATASET app_sr.

IF encoding = 'U'.

• The file is utf-8

ENDIF.