Question:
I would like to know what we have to install in BW in order to make sure that Traditional Chinese is fully supported.
This is our current scenario:
In R/3 the appropriate codepages for trad. chinese (8400) have been installed. There , I have already seen a bunch of customer numbers along with address data in trad. chinese language (KNA1).
In BW this address data (name1, city,street) has been implented in a custom InfoObject (ZCUSTOMER) as display attributes only. Therefore the load into BW went w/o any problems. I was able to display the contents of affected customer numbers in BW-tables by changing my SAP GUI in order to activate the multi-language feature.
Also, by changing some regional settings on my local (german) PC , I was able to see the trad. chinese characters in my BEX-Query.
Now, the real question:
When I change the display attributes to navigable attributes and try to repeat the same load , then I run into a special character failure with those trad. chinese characters.
I'd assume that our BASIS people have to install some language packages into our BW system.
Does anybody know what exactly has to be installed ? Just the appropriate codepage; or is it a character-set ; or is it something in between ?
Anybody familiar with double-byte languages in BW ?
Thanks
Answer:
When I change the display attributes to navigable attributes and try to repeat the same load , then I run into a special character failure with those trad. chinese characters.
Thanks
The basic problem is that you try to use as Nav Attribute something that should be seen only as Texts. Acceptance of special characters is easier for display attributes and text elements (which is only a special type of display attribute, in fact) then for characteristics/navig attributes.
I don't think installing a language package would solve your issue.
Ch
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