SAP ABAP Data Element TXW_UNICODE_MODE (Unicode Mode for DART Files)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN
   ⤷ 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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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 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