Issue with strange characters

Hi All,
A strange scenario ..
In the source system A text appears to have a hyphen (-)..
When my BW QA environment pulls the data in the PSA the same hyphen appears to be '#'
but my Dev environment pulls the same record, it appears the characters shows correctly as hyphen ..
What could be the possible reason for this issue? Could you guide me where should I look for these?
And the next part of the question :-
When the same record is sent via OHS, the hyphen actually shows as hyphen in the generated file(atleast when I try to view the file via al11).. When the file is sent via FTP, the hyphen actually gets converted to some strange characters(âu20ACu201C )..
Could someone please guide me ..
Thanks,
Debajyoti

Hi Debajyoti,
Check the RSKC t-code, if you have the hyphen character, or put "ALL_CAPITAL" to let all character as valid.
Sometimes, there are errors and/or conversion of the characters that you can see in the error message in the load.
The message sometimes has an hexadecmal number (I don't know if it is your case) that you can check with the next link.
[http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?number=512|http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?number=512]
There are characters that are allowed in the source system (i.e. R/3) because of system language configured in R/3 and not in BW, or Unicode configured in R/3 and not in BW.
Also, there are some control characters that sap doestn allow to be loaded (you can see them in the list).
You can validate each character that comes from PSA with a function module in the mapping (defined as routine) for the particular InfoObject that you want, and if it is the case, you can convert it or replace it
Regards, Federico

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