problem with uni-code and non-unicode

[Former Member]

HI folks,

I am working on ECC 5.0.

DATA: BEGIN OF ITAB OCCURS 0 ,

F1(10) TYPE C, "fixed length

END OF ITAB.

ITAB-F1 = 'abcDEF'.

APPEND ITAB.

ITAB-F1 = '全角TEST'.

APPEND ITAB.

using this data i am generating file into c drive.

but the file contains

first field of length 10 characters

second field of length 12 characters

eventhough the F1 lenth is 10 it is showing lenth as 12.

Application Undestanding: To view data in more than one Language

Technical Understanding: Conversion from non-unicode to unicode

i.e. 1 char = 1byte (non-unicode)

1 char=2 bytes (unicode)

can any one help..urgent requirement

Regards,

vinod

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

How are you "generating file"? Most likely encoding has to be set when writing into a file or something along those lines.