ABAP dump CONVT_CODEPAGE in ECC 6.0

Question

Hi,
In ECC 6.0 the following error is coming while reading data from Unix file.
<b>Runtime Errors         CONVT_CODEPAGE
Except.                CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE
The termination is caused because exception "CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE"
occurred in
procedure "GET_DATA_FROM_UXFILE" "(FORM)", but it was neither handled locally
nor declared
in the RAISING clause of its signature.</b>
The program logic for opening dataset and reading is as shown below, dump is coming while reading dataset.
  OPEN DATASET INFILE FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
  DO.
    READ DATASET INFILE INTO WA_workarea .
  ENDDO.
Do we need to change the read command to avoid this dump in ECC 6.0?
Thanks,
Sreedevi

Answer 1

I think syntax Open dataset option ENCODING DEFAULT in unicode system expects a file in UTF-8 encoding.
It's dumping because read dataset failed to convert a character in the fil to UTF-16.
You need to convert to UTF-16 before transfer
try.
    call method cl_abap_conv_in_ce=>create
      exporting
        encoding    = gv_encoding
        endian      = gv_endian
        replacement = '#'
      receiving
        conv        = conv_obj.
    call method conv_obj->convert
      exporting
        input = gv_xstr
        n     = -1
      importing
        data  = gv_str.
  catch cx_root.
    message 'Error during conversion' type 'E'.
endtry.
aRs