BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB- Entries with special charaters afetr unicode upgrade

Hi,
We are on SRM 5.0 (SRM_SERVER 550) Sp07. SAp 4.7 backend.
We are upgrading the system to unicode.
What we have observed is after PO creation the BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB has some special characters in the field 'Key'
For example:
BUS2121001##䟅㳤탇ᾣᾣઃ????#?? ######## 01############################
In the non unicode system the entry reads like below
BUS2121001GAEp#?g8Ia#####o# ################ 01###########
This does not cause problems in most of the SRM systems, but in one of the systems, the Clean_reqreq_up job is failing with a message 'Buffer table not up to date'. We are not sure if this is due to the entries in BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB which have special characters or not.
Can someone please explain the impact/risk of such entries in BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB. Is this a known issue. is there any solution for this?
Thanks & regards,
Srivatsan
Edited by: Srivatsan on Feb 29, 2008 1:14 PM

Hi,
The special characters may be due unicode/langauage issue.
See the foll notes:
Note 548016 - Conversion to Unicode
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BR,
Disha.
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