SAP ABAP Data Element RSPO_UPEALANGGROUP (UPE: Language Group)
Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   BC-CCM-PRN (Application Component) Print and Output Management
     SPOO (Package) Spool
Basic Data
Data Element RSPO_UPEALANGGROUP
Short Description UPE: Language Group  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type RSPO_UPEOLANGGROUP    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 2    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 2    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 ID 
Medium 14 Language ID 
Long 14 Language ID 
Heading 14 Language ID 
Documentation

Definition

A language group is a set of languages which are covered by the same script. It can consist of several languages like Latin-1, and it can also consist of only one language like Korean.

Use

A Unicode Reference Device Type (URDT) needs to be assigned at least one language group together with the fonts which are required for printing documents using these languages.

Dependencies

Example

You want to create a URDT which shall support printing of Polish, Croatian, Czech and Romanian. In this case, you assign language group Latin-2.

Examples:

Latin-1: Includes most of the Western European Languages, for example English, German, Spanish, French, etc.

Latin-2: Includes most of the Eastern European Languages, for example Polish, Croatian, Czech, Slovakian, etc.

Cyrillic: Includes the languages written in Cyrillic Script, for example Russian, Bulgarian.

Korean: Includes only Korean.

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History
Last changed by/on SAP  20131122 
SAP Release Created in 703