SAP ABAP Data Element TXW_UNICODE_MODE (Unicode Mode for DART Files)
Hierarchy
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SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN
⤷ CA-GTF-DRT (Application Component) Data Retention Tool
⤷ FTW1 (Package) Data Retention Tool
⤷ CA-GTF-DRT (Application Component) Data Retention Tool
⤷ FTW1 (Package) Data Retention Tool
Basic Data
Data Element | TXW_UNICODE_MODE |
Short Description | Unicode Mode for DART Files |
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
Domain / Name of Reference Type | TXW_UNICODE_MODE | |
Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
Length | 1 | |
Decimal Places | 0 | |
Output Length | 1 | |
Value Table |
Further Characteristics
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No Input History | ||
Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
Length | Field Label | |
Short | 0 | |
Medium | 0 | |
Long | 20 | Unicode Mode |
Heading | 0 |
Documentation
Definition
DART supports writing and reading extract and view files in Unicode and Non-Unicode format. The following options are available:
- Non-Unicode
Characters are represented in the file in the code page defined by the text environment current at the time of reading or writing. This is usually a variant of ASCII or EBCDIC encoding depending on the application server operating system. This encoding is compatible with files that were written in non-Unicode systems prior to R/3 Enterprise (4.7).
If the source data is in Unicode, then the Unicode characters are converted to "classic" 1-byte text characters. If such a conversion is not possible for a specific character, DART will replace this character with '#'.
This option is selected by default and should be chosen if non-Unicode files have to be read that were created in earlier SAP releases.
An additional consequence of this option is this: If a unicode character is converted to an ASCII character with a different byte representation, the checksum verification will return error XW220. - Default
Corresponds to UTF-8 in Unicode systems and to NON-UNICODE in non-Unicode systems. - UTF-8 Unicode Format
Characters are represented in the file in the format UTF-8. This option should be selected if the source data contains essential Unicode characters that have no ASCII equivalent.
History
Last changed by/on | SAP | 20020417 |
SAP Release Created in | 470 |