Ampersand in text

Hello,
When I enter text in eg. a purchase order (me21n) and I use the ampersand character "&" in there in for instance the header text. The text is stored in the table as <(>&<)>. When I request the PO with the BAPI BAPI_PO_GETDETAIL this <(>&<)> is also given as a result in the BAPI.
When I use this BAPI remote i do not want the extra characters around the &. Is there anybody who knows how to avoid these extra characters.
tnx.
Emile

Hi Emile,
SAP Note 730598 covers this. As you suggested, this is normal behavior because the ampersand is stored in the database with extra characters. The text can be converted from SAPScript to plain text using function module CONVERT_ITF_TO_ASCII.

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