Change of Encoding in Sender JMS Adapter

Question

Hi,
   My scenario is like that:-
FTP->MQ Queue->JMS Queue->XI->R/3
From JMS Queue IDOC xml is coming in UTF-8 encoding to XI. In that IDOC xml certain special characters are there, say, some Latin or European character. But for the scenario XI->R/3, data are not getting posted to R/3. In XI side, it is not giving any error, but it is giving a flag (in QRFC Monitor) which is “ Error between two Character Sets”.
I am unable to rectify this error. One solution I have guessed that is, it will be possible to resolve this issue if I can change the encoding in XI to ISO-8859-1. But I don’t know how to change the encoding in Sender JMS Adapter in XI. Could you please help me to resolve this issue?
BR
Soumya B

Answer 1

Hi,
Check following:
1. In SXMB_MONI, what is the XML structure generated for inbound and outbound message. Check the encoding used in both. This could be checked by looking at the first line of XML generated. For UTF encoding, usually, the first line should look as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
2. If the encoding for both is different, try to figure out which encoding is used for Message Type in XI. For matching the encodings, you could change the XSD used for creating message type in XI. This way, the character encoding could be changed. And this solution should suffice if the problem has occured between XI to R3 scenario.
Also, for learning more about character encodings, you could visit following link:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
Hope it helps.
Bhavish.
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