Single code page change

[Former Member]

Hello all,

we have ERP2005 non-unicode systems.

Systems have default code page Latin-1 with English, French, German,....

Now we need Hungarian language.

The first solution is to migrate systems to UNICODE. This costs time and money. We need some faster sollution.

According Note 73606 - Supported Languages and Code Pages - MDMP and Blended Code Pages are not supported any more. So this is not also possible.

I tried also report RSCPINST, added Hungarian language and simulate it.

Result: The required language combination is supported only in UNICODE systems.

Have someone experience with other solutions?

Is there any possibility to switch to Latin-2 code page with English, Hungarian,....?

[Former Member]

There is only one SAP supported way to have two single code pages in ERP2005 and that is UNICODE.

You need to convert to Unicode to support more than one codepage in ERP2005. That's it - that's the only option.

Regards,

Beth Geiger

[Former Member]

Hello Beth,

thank you for your quick answer.

I also think that our sollution should be UNICODE migration. But I only want to be sure that there isn't another possibility.

It is also little bit strange, because someone from managment also contacted direct SAP and get email with some hints that there can be some other way for changing code page. (I think that they didn't realise that we have ERP 2005.)

I already asked them for some expalantion.

[Former Member]

Yes, change to unicode if you want more languages in ERP2005

[Former Member]

Hello all,

We finally find some solution for our problem.

It is possible to switch from Latin-1 to Latin-2, from one code page to another.

Be aware that this change may cause inconsistencies in your database. Inconsistencies may cause languages that are not supported in both code pages. In our case English and German are both in Latin-1 and Latin-2, so it shouldn’t be problem with them.

But this is not official supported way from SAP (I think ).

We tested it on ERP2005.

In se38 – start report: RSCPINST

- define language you need

- in right table (code page), mark new code page and then choose

- Activate

Stop SAP

Activate profile parameters:

install/codepage/appl_server = 1401 (code page for Latin-2)

zcsa/installed_languages = DEH

zcsa/system_language = E

Start SAP

Install language you want in SMLT.

Some older sapnote for this:

Note 71107 - Configuration of a Hungarian system

May be it will help someone!

Edited by: Peter Corba on May 28, 2008 2:21 PM