Open Data Set Encoding

[Former Member]

Hello all,

Can we specify Encoding in the OPEN DATA SET statement,i found out that we can encode it with UTF-8.

but i want to encode my data in Latin1 ISO-8859-1.

is it possible?

if yes how to do it?

plz help its urgent:(

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Surmeet

You cannot define an encoding for a specific ISO encoding.

However, if your file is not correctly read using encoding UTF-8 (e.g. the German Umlaute like ä, ö, ü are not displayed properly) you could try encoding NON-UNICODE.

Recently I have had exactly this problem at a customer site where

OPEN DATASET ... ENCODING DEFAULT    " on ECC 6.0 unicode -> UTF-8

did not work properly yet using

OPEN DATASET ... ENCODING NON-UNICODE

everything was fine.

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

hello uwe,

yes even i m facing this problem with the german characters

will try ur solution

thanx

[Former Member]

hi UWE,

the thing u told for the non unicode is working fine

but it is giving me a dump for one string

the string is:

020#H04#DMT (ADSL, ADSL2)#Alternativ ist der Einsatz von ADSL2plus(H13) nicht zugelassen. Die Beauftragung einer Nutzungsänderung „Änderung des Übertragungsverfahrens“ ist zwingend erforderlich.

the dump i m getting is: A character set conversion is not possible.

can u tell me the reason for this and how to correct it

htnax plz its urgent

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Surmeet

For me this sounds like that your string contains characters from two different encodings, e.g. ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2.

You could try to use option

OPEN DATASET ... IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS.

Alternatively, you could surround the OPEN DATASET statement with a

TRY.
  OPEN DATASET ...

CATCH CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE INTO lo_error.
  ld_msg = lo_error->get_text( ).  " get the message text
ENDTRY.

block and analyse the error message text. Hopefully you will find some hints to solve the problem.

<i>Note</i>: For details refer to the ABAP keyword documentation of OPEN DATASET.

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

hello uwe,

i still have a problem

the problem is that all my special corrector Ä and all special german characters are getting converted in to '#'

how to solve this?

i m sorry for troubling u again and again

[mahaboob_pathan]

hi

i am facing the same problem

could you please help me out how you have resolve it.

thanks in advance and <<removed_by_moderator>>.

Edited by: Vijay Babu Dudla on Jun 30, 2009 1:28 AM