SAP ABAP Data Element CPBYTEIND (Byte indicator)
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SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component⤷
BC-I18 (Application Component) Internationalization (I18N)⤷
SCP (Package) SAP Code Pages
Basic Data
| Data Element | CPBYTEIND |
| Short Description | Byte indicator |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | CPBYTEIND | |
| Data Type | NUMC | Character string with only digits |
| Length | 2 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 2 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Byte Ind. |
| Medium | 15 | Byte indicator |
| Long | 35 | Character length (byte indicator) |
| Heading | 2 | BI |
Documentation
Definition
The byte indicator is a number which specifies the coding procedure of a character set:
- 1 Single-byte character set
- 2 Double-byte character set
- 3 Mixed (single-byte/double-byte)
- 4 Character set with variable lenmgth (1 - 4 bytes)
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 19950209 |
| SAP Release Created in |
