SAP 4.6c LSMW issues with UTF-8 files uploads

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am using SAP 4.6c and SAP GUI 7.2. Currently I have a requirement to upload the material master data into SAP system using LSMW.

I faced an issue when the material description is in Chines the input file is UTF-8 format. After I read data, I display the read data I see that the value for material description is not correct.

I tried to load the same file in SAP ECC6 system, it works perfectly. Therefore, I am searching for sap notes to fix the issues but still don't find any note yet.

So I really need your help to point out what's exactly the issue is and any suggestion to fix this issues.

Thank you so much in advance.

Hung

[JL23]

What is your input file? is a text file on your local PC?

or is it in a directory on the application server?

How was it created?

What definition do you have in LSMW step Specify files?

[Former Member]

Hi Jurgen,

My input is tab delimited text format(UTF - 8). It's on my local PC.

I created it manually based on the data users sent to me.

in the step "Specify files", I define as below:

- Legacy data --> On the PC (frontend)

- browse to the file on my PC

- File contents: Data for one source structure (table)

- Separator: Tabular

- Codepage: ASCII

I can load the file to ECC 6.0 without any issues. But in 4.6c I see the data is not correct when I choose display read data for Chinese character.

Thanks,

Hung

[JL23]

Is your 46c a Unicode or MDMP system?

If it is an MDMP system, then you should login with the chinese language and execute your LSMW

However, I remember cases (from log ago) where chinese characters e.g. in the incoterm 2 field caused that all content  after that field got wrongly shifted by some places.  (my legacy data was in IDOCs). I had a report provided by SAP support to correct this.

[Former Member]

Frankly speaking, I don't know if my 4.6c is Unicode or MDMP.

However, I tried to log on the system with Chinese language and I can see the text in Chinese but it's not the character in the file plus there are some unexpected characters like dot( . ) or '#'.

I am searching for a SAP notes to fix this issue but not yet find any suitable one.

I also did debugging and see that in 4.6c the system use FM 'WS_UPLOAD' to load the file from my PC to the system while in ECC 6.0 the system use FM 'GUI_UPLOAD' to do the same thing.

If you know any solutions please keep me posted!

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Hung,

4.6c systems do not support Unicode.

Therefore I think you need to provide the Chinese data based on Non-Unicode (SAP code page 8400).

And in addition you need to logon with language Chinese for uploading the data.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

[Former Member]

Hi Nils,

Yes, the root cause is that 4.6c doesn't support Unicode.

Therefore, I would suggest users to use Non-Unicode format to upload data.

Thanks,