need help about UTF8 and Code Pages

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am downloading a file in UTF8 to application server. But when I am debugging, the internal table(line type char256) is with code page 4021 asshown by the debugger.

I am bit confused as to differentiate between UTF8 and the code page, frankly speaking I dont have much idea about UTF8 and code pages.

Could You please provide me any link or something to make a sound knowledge about this.

Please suggest

Thanks

Akash

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Akash,

in SAP there are basically 3 important Unicode encoding formats:

UTF-8 (SAP number 4110)

UTF-16BE (SAP number 4102)

UTF-16LE (SAP number 4103)

On the application server side, utf-16 format is used (which one depends on the endianess of the CPU - please have a look at SAP note 552464).

On the SAPGUI for Windows side, utf-8 is used (in case of a Unicode system).

UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII - meaning that the encoding of the plain English characters is the same.

UTF-8 is a variable format - one character can be represented by 1, 2, 3 or even 4 Hex Bytes.

Please also have a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

[Former Member]

The third party was having a Oracle-Loader problem. Change the file format to pipe-delimited!!