unicode problem of interface communion

[Former Member]

Our current SAP system is ECC 5.0 non-Unicode.

we are in upgrade project and will upgrade SAP to ECC 6.0 Unicode.

in non-Unicode system, if the length of field is 10 (char), we can only input 5 Chinese character.

in Unicode , we can input 10 Chinese character.

Now we have some interface linked to non-Unicode subsystem (or Big5 DB) . these interface gets data from sap standard table.

in this case, the interface only can receive 5 Chinese character .

Is there any way to control the user to input 5 character like before, not 10 Chinese character.

we don't want to truncate the field directly ? any good idea.

Many thanks!

[Former Member]

Our current SAP system is ECC 5.0 non-Unicode.

we are in upgrade project and will upgrade SAP to ECC 6.0 Unicode.

in non-Unicode system, if the length of field is 10 (char), we can only input 5 Chinese character.

in Unicode , we can input 10 Chinese character.

Now we have some interface linked to non-Unicode subsystem (or Big5 DB) . these interface gets data from sap standard table.

in this case, the interface only can receive 5 Chinese character .

Is there any way to control the user to input 5 character like before, not 10 Chinese character.

we don't want to truncate the field directly ? any good idea.

Many thanks!

[Former Member]

any idea

[SuhaSaha]

Did you check the "MDMP & Unicode" tab in SM59 ?

[Former Member]

Maybe it wil helps you try this if you have an authorization ,

In the field domain level set output length 5.it does not allow more than five characters.

[Former Member]

Thanks ,

Changing the length of domain maybe is a good idea...but lots of standard data element need to be modified..

and the database of subsystem is non-unicode . it can only store 5 Chinese character.

So if we can control the input , that's will be fine.

[Former Member]

thanks for any suggestion