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code page

Former Member
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hello!

can anyone please explain what is code page?

I came across a problem, while opening dataset in text mode,

i use the command transfer few times, but instead of getting few lines in the file i get a string of all the lines.

I was told to use code page, is that the solution?

regards

yifat

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former_member223537
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Hi,

Code page is used for double byte characters. i.e. if your file content has non-english characters then you need to specify the Code page in OPEN DATASET for input in TEXT mode CODE PAGE '8000'.

You can ask your BASIS team for Code-page for the language you are using.

Best regards,

Prashant

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former_member223537
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Hi,

Code page is used for double byte characters. i.e. if your file content has non-english characters then you need to specify the Code page in OPEN DATASET for input in TEXT mode CODE PAGE '8000'.

You can ask your BASIS team for Code-page for the language you are using.

Best regards,

Prashant

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Hi,

Code page means:

Mapping of selected characters (character set) onto bit sequences. For example, Latin1 ( ISO-8859-1) represents a code page that contains all the characters required for Western European languages, while a Unicode character representation can display all the characters required across the globe. The way in which characters are displayed in an internal session is determined by the active system code page for the text environment in the internal session. Each code page supported by SAP is assigned an SAP code page number in the database table TCP00.

Regards,

Sesh