Unicode Conversion

[Former Member]

I am presently working in Unicode conversion .

There is a statement in sap 4.6C as mentioned below .

Character are converted from HP character format to IBM format

TRANSLATE I_OUTPUT_DATASET FROM CODE PAGE V_FROM_CODEPAGE TO CODE PAGE V_TO_CODEPAGE

V_FROM_CODEPAGE = 1100

V_TO_CODEPAGE = 0199

But when I tried to execute in the Unicode enviornment the above statement is obsolete .

So please send how to change the present text to this format .

[rainer_hbenthal]

Why dont you use the online help to figure out on howto replace the TRANSLATE statement?

[Former Member]

Hi ,

Thank you for the suggestion .

But I didn't find any such help from the online .

[Former Member]

Hi Bhaskar,

Translate is Obsolete now . You need to use Classes

CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE - External to System Format

CL_ABAP_CONV_OUT_CE - System Format to External Format.

Thanks,

Rema.

[rainer_hbenthal]

Position the cursor on TRANSLATE, press F1. Read. There is a paragraf saying translate is obsolet and what do use instead.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank you .But this only gives the syntax i.e

To UPPER /LOWER case .

Using Pattern .

But it is solving my present problem

[Former Member]

Hi Bhaskar,

Try the below code.

report znk_sdn.

data : in_buffer type xstring,

out_buffer type xstring,

conv type ref to cl_abap_conv_x2x_ce,

str1 type string value '?',

x type xstring.

convert text str1 into sortable code x.

write: x, ' '.

convert text '-' into sortable code x.

write x.

in_buffer = '414220C3B602010000'.

conv = cl_abap_conv_x2x_ce=>create( in_encoding = 'UTF-8'

in_endian = 'L'

out_encoding = '1100'

out_endian = 'B'

input = in_buffer ).

call method conv->convert_c( n = 5 ).

out_buffer = conv->get_out_buffer( ).

write out_buffer.

In the same way you can use below classes.

CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE

Reading data from a byte-like data object and converting from an external format to the system format.

CL_ABAP_CONV_OUT_CE

Converting data from the system format to an external format and writing in a byte-like data object.

CL_ABAP_CONV_X2X_CE

Converting data from an external format to another external format.