Converting to WIN1252

I have some questions regarding converting data to WIN1252 format. We have the following data flow:
SAP R/3 -> SAP PI -> 3rd Party
Our 3rd Party is requiring they receive the data in WIN1252 format. I'm trying to determine whether this conversion should be done on SAP R/3 or SAP PI? The R/3 data is entered by the user into a front end (dialog program) and saved to ztables. The ztable data is sent to PI via proxy. PI sends the data to the 3rd party via AS2 adapter.
Where would be the best place to do the WIN1252 conversion and how is it done?

Hi Susan,
You need to do codepage conversion. For how to do this please check stefans response in this thread:
Re: Code Page Conversion using PI ? (ANSI Windows to UTF-8)
Re: Receiver File adapter encoding
Take a look at this thread also:
Re: How to read oracle database contain Chinese Character ?
Regards,
---Satish

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check col1
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input: "£ 1"
pos chr ascii
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2
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sql> prompt check col2
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convert col1
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sql>
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check col1
sql> exec check_col1
input: "Â£ "
pos chr ascii
1   Â   \00C2
2   £   \00A3
3
sql>
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convert col2
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2 set    col2 = sys_op_csconv(col2,'AL32UTF8','WE8MSWIN1252');
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convert col2
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pos chr ascii
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change codepage
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2 set    col1 = sys_op_csconv(col1,'AL32UTF8','WE8MSWIN1252');
sql>
sql> prompt check col1
check col1
sql> exec check_col1
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2   �   \00A3
3
sql>
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update col2
sql> update bc_test
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sql>
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2 as select '£ 1' col1
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Thank you!

Convert smart quotes and other high ascii characters to HTML

I'd like to set up Dreamweaver CS4 Mac to automatically convert smart quotes and other high ASCII characters (m-dashes, accent marks, etc.) pasted from MS Word into HTML code. Dreamweaver 8 used to do this by default, but I can't find a way to set up a similar auto-conversion in CS 4. Is this possible? If not, it really should be a preference option. I code a lot of HTML emails and it is very time consuming to convert every curly quote and dash.
Thanks,
Robert
Digital Arts

I too am having a related problem with Dreamweaver CS5 (running under Windows XP), having just upgraded from CS4 (which works fine for me) this week.
In my case, I like to convert to typographic quotes etc. in my text editor, where I can use macros I've written to speed the conversion process. So my preferred method is to key in typographic letters & symbols by hand (using ALT + ASCII key codes typed in on the numeric keypad) in my text editor, and then I copy and paste my *plain* ASCII text (no formatting other than line feeds & carriage returns) into DW's DESIGN view. DW displays my high-ASCII characters just fine in DESIGN view, and writes the proper HTML code for the character into the source code (which is where I mostly work in DW).
I've been doing it this way for years (first with GoLive, and then with DW CS4) and never encountered any problems until this week, when I upgraded to DW CS5.
But the problem I'm having may be somewhat different than what others have complained of here.
In my case, some high-ASCII (above 128) characters convert to HTML just fine, while others do not.
E.g., en and em dashes in my cut-and-paste text show as such in DESIGN mode, and the right entries
    –
    —
turn up in the source code. Same is true for the ampersand
    &
and the copyright symbol
    ©
and for such foreign letters as the e with acute accent (ALT+0233)
    é
What does NOT display or code correctly are the typographic quotes. E.g., when I paste in (or special paste; it doesn't seem to make any difference which I use for this) text with typographic double quotes (ALT+0147 for open quote mark and ALT+0148 for close quote mark), which should appear in source code as
    “[...]”
DW strips out the ASCII encoding, displaying the inch marks in DESIGN mode, and putting this
    "[...]"
in my source code.
The typographic apostrophe (ALT+0146) is treated differently still. The text I copy & paste into DW should appear as
    [...]’[...]
in the source code, but instead I get the foot mark (both in DESIGN and CODE views):
I've tried adjusting the various DW settings for "encoding"
    MODIFY > PAGE PROPERTIES > TITLE/ENCODING > Encoding:
and for fonts
    EDIT > PREFERENCES > FONTS
but switching from "Unicode (UTF-8)" to "Western European" hasn't solved the problem (probably because in my case many of the higher ASCII characters convert just fine). So I don't think it's the encoding scheme I use that's the problem.
Whatever the problem is, it's caused me enough headaches and time lost troubleshooting that I'm planning to revert to CS4 as soon as I post this.
Deborah

Trying to drag pdf files i have and combine them into one pdf file in the account i just purchased with Adobe. when i drag a pdf file over Adobe doesn't accept it. says it can not convert this type of file. but it is an Adobe file. Do I need to change it?

Trying to drag pdf files i have and combine them into one pdf file in the account i just purchased with Adobe. when i drag a pdf file over Adobe doesn't accept it. says it can not convert this type of file. but it is an Adobe file. Do I need to change it in some other form befor dragging it?

Hello djensen1x,
Could you please let me know what version of Acrobat are you using.
Also, tell me your workflow of combining those PDF files?
Please share the screenshot of the error message that you get.
Hope to get your response.
Regards,
Anubha

Converting to WIN1252

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