UTF-8

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have a problem where the file generated as UTF-8 format but the the checking always shown 'Non UTF-8'?

  OPEN DATASET docid FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING UTF-8.

  LOOP AT i_outfile.
    TRANSFER i_outfile TO docid LENGTH 1000.
  ENDLOOP.
  CLOSE DATASET docid.

  IF cl_abap_file_utilities=>check_for_bom( docid ) = cl_abap_file_utilities=>bom_utf8.
    WRITE 'UTF-8'.
  ELSE.
    WRITE 'Non UTF-8'.
  ENDIF.

  

Hope you can shed some light here.

[Former Member]

Can anyone please help?

[former_member156446]

try this:

OPEN DATASET docid FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING UTF-8.
 if sy-subrc NE 0.
exit.
else.
  LOOP AT i_outfile.
    TRANSFER i_outfile TO docid LENGTH 1000.
  ENDLOOP.
  CLOSE DATASET docid.
endif.

[Former Member]

Thanks Jay for proposing solution. However, there is no problem with OPEN DATASET ... ENCODING UTF-8 statement and the UTF-8 file created successfully.

[former_member156446]

try it in byte mode rather than text mode. uTF-8 and UTF-16 etc are related to bytes...

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[Former Member]

Jay,

Do you mean OPEN DATASET ... IN BINARY MODE? There is no such syntax as IN BYTE MODE. I tried BINARY MODE but not working.

[Former Member]

To make my question clearer,

How to create a UTF-8 file in application server with BOM (Byte-Order Mark)?

[Former Member]

Solved by myself. Thanks.

[anupam_srivastava2]

Hi Girish

I am having a similar problem, when I transfer the data to .DAT file..some sp. char appers with £ sign.

How did you solved the problem, if you can guide me that will be great.

thanks

Anup

[Former Member]

As usual : someone find the answer and do not post it... Worse!! He comes to say he has found it and do not post it... We see that too many times on this forum.

Anyway here's my solution in this post : helped by the previous answers !

I had to pass through an xstring for convertion but it's quite easy.