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Phrase on SDS shows funny characters

Former Member
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Hi @all,

we are facing a strange issue:

there is one phrase in SR language that is not displayed correctly on the SDS.

It is a header phrase and the font is set to "Arial bold" so this should be no issue.

The phrase itself looks ok, the text is displayed correctly and it is no long text, not even a formating symbol is used.

This issue appears only in language SR but with all generation variants - if I try a different language everything is fine.

Has anyone made the same experiences? Any hint is really welcome !!!

Best regards,

Christoph

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Accepted Solutions (1)

Former Member
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Hi !

Your issue is related to WWI Font.

From your question, it is assumed that the report symbol is formatted with font ‘x’ (Arial bold ?) and in the output, you expect the report symbol to output a text in Serbian language (SR).

Answer:

Have a look at “Font” section in your "WWI.INI" file located in your WWI installation location. It lists out the character set.

So format your report symbol with any of the fonts mentioned here. You must get the output properly in SR language.

Note: In phrase library, ensure the phrase translation for the particular phrase is maintained without mistake for SR language!


Regards

Subash Sankar.

Former Member
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Hi Subash,

thanks a lot, if I change the font to "Arial" it works.

Great job!

Best regards,

Christoph

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former_member215519
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Remember we use SH instead of SR for that language. Can you have a try for that?

christoph_bergemann
Active Contributor
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Dear John

you need to pay a "little" bit attention in using "languages" in SAP. You should not try (or simply avoid that)  to maintain characters of e.g. language "JP" in a field to which "DE" is assigned, The sam eis true in context of SH and SR. You get "more" trouble on a long term if you go on like that (because of "lengthy" story of the reasons: use this as a "tipp").

Generally many companies have "problems" in handling "languages". They try to make is sometimes "simpler" as they should. Especially in the context of WWI (no idea about SAP script, SMart from or other types of techniques to geenrated documents) you should not mix characters (assign the wrong language to the character string).

C.B.

former_member215519
Participant
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Hi Christoph,

Thanks for your comments, but according to SAP regulatory content for the multilanguage phrase library, for Serbian, it's using SH to upload. And remember we checked this with the government, and it's ok as they said.

Please advise if you have more details of this.

Thanks.