Download IR to PDF Non-English Characters

Hi,
I' m trying to export an interactive report to pdf. The report columns are in greek and therefore they are displayed as hash characters (#) to the downloaded pdf. While downloading to CSV, I was able to export the report correctly by changing the Application Primary Language Globalization variable to Greek but this doesn't seem to affect the pdf as well. Any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance

Hi,
I am fine with english characters A-Z, a-z or 0-9 or special characters. But it contains some chinese, japanes or non-english language characters which I dont want.
The logic explained by you above would expect me to list all the valid characters. Also it would be a performance constraint. Hence i wanted something as FM or standard procedure. Can we use ASCII somehow ?
Regards,
Nirmal

Similar Messages

Non English Characters do not appear as is while downloading in CSV

Hi All,
My report output has some non english characters. Downloading the output in CSV the non english characters dont show as is, rather appear as *???*
I am using classic Report Template.
How to overcome this?
Should I create a custom Report Template?
If Yes, then how to incorporate the custom template
Thanks,
Sombit

Hi,
You can create a custom template using BI Publisher + RTF Template.
There you can set the font, graphs, ...
But you need commercial version of Oracle BI.
Regards
J :D

Problem in converting Spool to PDF file, having non-English characters

Hi All,
I have problem in converting Spool to PDF format.
Scenario : I have a spool which has non-English characters. I am using CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF FM to perform conversion. But my output is having junk values( ie # ) for non-English characters. Any pointers to solve this issue will be appreciated.
I even tried with report RSTXPDFT4 , it also gives me the same junk characters.
Regards,
Navin.

Hi All,
I have problem in converting Spool to PDF format.
Scenario : I have a spool which has non-English characters. I am using CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF FM to perform conversion. But my output is having junk values( ie # ) for non-English characters. Any pointers to solve this issue will be appreciated.
I even tried with report RSTXPDFT4 , it also gives me the same junk characters.
Regards,
Navin.

PDF generation for Non English Characters from ADF

Hi
We are using below piece of code to generate pdf from ADF Managed bean. It works fine. However for non English Characters(eg. Japanese,Vietnamese,Arabic) it puts
I got few blogs
https://blogs.oracle.com/BIDeveloper/entry/non-english_characters_appears
However we are not using BI Publisher product . We are using its API's
Can anyone tell where do we need to setup fonts within ADF or Weblogic or Server ?
Input Parameters are
a)xml Data
b)InputStream ie rtf Template
import oracle.apps.xdo.XDOException;
import oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor;
import oracle.apps.xdo.template.RTFProcessor;
    public static byte[] genPdfRep(String pOutFileType,byte[] pXmlOut ,InputStream pTemplate)
        byte[] dataBytes = null;
        try {
            //Process RTF template to convert to XSL-FO format
            RTFProcessor rtfp = new RTFProcessor(pTemplate);
            ByteArrayOutputStream xslOutStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            rtfp.setOutput(xslOutStream);
            rtfp.process();
            //Use XSL Template and Data from the VO to generate report and return the OutputStream of report
            ByteArrayInputStream xslInStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xslOutStream.toByteArray());
            FOProcessor processor = new FOProcessor();
            ByteArrayInputStream dataStream = new ByteArrayInputStream((byte[])pXmlOut);
            processor.setData(dataStream);
            processor.setTemplate(xslInStream);
            ByteArrayOutputStream pdfOutStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            processor.setOutput(pdfOutStream);
            byte outFileTypeByte = FOProcessor.FORMAT_PDF;
            processor.setOutputFormat(outFileTypeByte); //FOProcessor.FORMAT_HTML
            processor.generate();
            dataBytes = pdfOutStream.toByteArray();
        } catch (XDOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        return dataBytes;
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Abhijit

Fonts are defined in the template you use to generate the pdf. Your application add the data and both is processed yb the FOP processor. Now there are two possible causes of the '???' :
1. the data you sent to the template contains the '???' already
2. the template can't digest the data (the special characters) and puts '???' in the pdf.
Before going on you have to find out which one is your problem. The 2nd is the problem you better ask this in a FOP forum as you have to solve it by changing the template.
Timo

Non English characters in BIP email

Hi, my report contains Japanese characters, when I view the output in HTML format. It is displayed properly. But when I click on send button , enter email parameters like to, cc, bcc, subject , etc and send it, in the mail I receive, the japanese characters are not getting displayed properly. The same problem occurs for spanish and portugese texts-in general to all non english characters. I am using Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Release 10.1.3.4. If someone has faced a similar issue, kindly help. Thanks in advance

Suggestions
1) Try with NLS_LANG as
SWEDISH_SWEDEN.WE8DEC
2) Make a paramform and enter via paramform (unencoded)
(This is just for testing purpose)
3) Change machine locale to swedish and try
4) Which reports version is this ?
Please see
BUG 2713695 - NLS CHARACTERS FOR PARAMETERS CHANGE TO QUESTION MARKS WHEN PASSED ON URL BAR
Get in touch with Support to see if this is the issue and if "yes" get a one-off patch.
[    All Docs for all versions    ]
http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/reports.html
[     Publishing reports to web - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10314_01/toc.htm (html)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10314_01.pdf (pdf)
[   Building reports - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10602_01.pdf (pdf)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10602_01/toc.htm (html)
[   Forms Reports Integration whitepaper 9i ]
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/frm9isrw9i.pdf
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Non-English characters in URL for rwservlet

I'm having a problem when I try to use non-english characters in a URL request to generate a report.
This works fine:
http://...rwservlet?report=r1.jsp&m1=Fred
But if I try FrÃ©d (e with accent graph) the report does not return any data even though the SQL by itself would find data.
I tried UTF-8 encoding
http://...rwservlet?report=r1.jsp&m1=Fr%C3%A9d
8859-1 encoding
http://...rwservlet?report=r1.jsp&m1=Fr%E9d
Or just spell it out (not sure what that gets encode as):
http://...rwservlet?report=r1.jsp&m1=FrÃ©d
But noting works. Any ideas?
Thanks, Andreas

Suggestions
1) Try with NLS_LANG as
SWEDISH_SWEDEN.WE8DEC
2) Make a paramform and enter via paramform (unencoded)
(This is just for testing purpose)
3) Change machine locale to swedish and try
4) Which reports version is this ?
Please see
BUG 2713695 - NLS CHARACTERS FOR PARAMETERS CHANGE TO QUESTION MARKS WHEN PASSED ON URL BAR
Get in touch with Support to see if this is the issue and if "yes" get a one-off patch.
[    All Docs for all versions    ]
http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/reports.html
[     Publishing reports to web - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10314_01/toc.htm (html)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10314_01.pdf (pdf)
[   Building reports - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10602_01.pdf (pdf)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10602_01/toc.htm (html)
[   Forms Reports Integration whitepaper 9i ]
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/frm9isrw9i.pdf
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Missing/corrupted non-english characters in Preview

I know there have been posts on this recently, but this is such a significant problem that I thought it worth keeping live.
Preview does not display non-english characters in PDFs properly. Things like greek characters are either displayed as the english equivalent or are missing or something else more bizzare. This happens on my MBP and my partners MB, both running Leopard. Acrobat, Word etc have no problems. I had no issues with Tiger
I would like to report this directly to Apple but I couldn't find how...

Suggestions
1) Try with NLS_LANG as
SWEDISH_SWEDEN.WE8DEC
2) Make a paramform and enter via paramform (unencoded)
(This is just for testing purpose)
3) Change machine locale to swedish and try
4) Which reports version is this ?
Please see
BUG 2713695 - NLS CHARACTERS FOR PARAMETERS CHANGE TO QUESTION MARKS WHEN PASSED ON URL BAR
Get in touch with Support to see if this is the issue and if "yes" get a one-off patch.
[    All Docs for all versions    ]
http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/reports.html
[     Publishing reports to web - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10314_01/toc.htm (html)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10314_01.pdf (pdf)
[   Building reports - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10602_01.pdf (pdf)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10602_01/toc.htm (html)
[   Forms Reports Integration whitepaper 9i ]
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/frm9isrw9i.pdf
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Odd number of non-english characters get broken in windows-chrome and ff

I developed jnlp applet which prints out the user input.
When I put odd number of non-english characters(eg: chinese), chrome and firefox browser prints out the last character as question mark.
input : 가
output : 가��
I checked on java console that the character is correct.
It must be bug in communication of applet to chrome browser.
IE prints out correctly.
I can resolve the issue by appending white space on applet and remove it on java script.
Anyone has any clue on the issue?
Codes are as follows.
MainApplet.Java
public class MainApplet extends JApplet implements JSInterface{//, Runnable {
     public int stringOut(String sData) {
          OutData = sData;
          return 0;
js File
function TSToolkitRealWrapper ()
     var OutData;
     var OutDataNum;
var TSToolkit = new TSToolkitRealWrapper();
var attributes = { id:'TSToolkitReal',code:'tradesign.pkitoolkit.applet.MainApplet', width:100, height:100} ;
var parameters = {jnlp_href: getContextPath() + '/download/pkitoolkit.jnlp',
                     separate_jvm:true, classloader_cache:false} ;
TSToolkitRealWrapper.prototype.stringOut=function(str)
          var      nRet = TSToolkitReal.stringOut(str)     ;
          this.OutData= TSToolkitReal.OutData;
          return      nRet;
HTML
<SCRIPT language=javascript>

</SCRIPT>
Edited by: user13496918 on 2013. 3. 20 오후 7:29
Edited by: user13496918 on 2013. 3. 20 오후 7:39
Edited by: user13496918 on 2013. 3. 20 오후 9:17
Edited by: user13496918 on 2013. 3. 20 오후 9:18

I checked on java console that the character is correct.So it isn't a Java problem.
It must be bug in communication of applet to chrome browser.So tell the people who make the Chrome browser.
IE prints out correctly.That's a change. I've just spent nine days tracking down an IE applet problem and I'm not finished yet.
Please omit the boldface next time. We can read. Boldface doesn't help; it makes it worse.

VBA does not recognize non-English characters

Hello guys,
I have a new laptop with Windows 8.1 bought in the USA and I'm having a difficulties with Excel VBA (Office 365 University-64x bought in the Czech Republic - Central Europe). The VBA does not recognize non-English characters (particularly "ř" and
"ů") which causes me problem when running some codes that I wrote earlier on my previous laptop (Windows 7, bought in the Czech Republic with the same Office).
The problem with non-English characters has occurred only in VBA so far, otherwise I can use these characters normally in Excel cells, Word... I tried to install both English and Czech version of the Office with no change, I also installed Czech proofreading
tools and set everything to Czech in the Office. The location and language preferences in the Windows are also set up to Czech. And it is not a problem of a font. I also mentioned that when I tried to look up these characters, using Ctrl+F, it changes
original ř to r after a search and again this is only an issue of the VBA.
Thank you very much for any help.
Tom

Hi Tom,
I would suggest you post the question in the forum of
Excel for Developers as your query is directly related to VBA. Here we mainly support Office client side issues:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=exceldev
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
Ethan Hua
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Support issue for non-English characters (in html forms)

Hi group!
I just want to post an issue here and see if anyone else has the same problem. First off, Im running Windows XP MCE but the French version (not the english version). This may help find out where the problem really is.
Second, I know a bit of html and such, and I'm referring to HTML Character entities for this thread, there's a quite complete list here for reference: http://www.faqs.org/docs/htmltut/characterentitiesfamsupp69.html
I noticed that some, not all, non-English characters written in a textarea (which is, basically, a multi-lined input box) doesnt pass well or at all to the server when sending the form from Safari. Most of the time, the content of the text area is reduced to the beginning and ends where the first accentued character is met.
The most used French accents (é, à) are usually well interpreted (but may, once in a while, produce that bug too) by safari, but ô and î doesnt do that well.
Oddly, this bug doesnt happen all the time and doesnt "crash" in the same manner everytime.
So I started a thread just to see if there's anyone else having issues with any non-english characters mostly in forms. Probably flash/shockwave does work, but I'm not sure- I have not tested yet.
Acer Aspire 5044 Windows XP Turion 1.8GHz, 1Gb SDRam, ATI 200M xpress

Yes, it is a known issue. I also noticed that it sometimes works, but most of the time it does not. It will hopefully be solved in the future. According to http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ changes that will come include:
# Support for International users
# International text input methods
# Advanced text (contextual forms, international scripts)
Sony Vaio Windows XP

[AS] Problem with non English characters in file path

I wrote a script that exports a pdf file from ID, rasterizes it in PS, applies an action, saves it as another pdf file, and finally creates a Mail message, and attaches the file to it (the last part is written in AppleScript).
The problem is that it doesn't work when the path to this file contains non English characters.
This works:
make new attachment with properties {file name:"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/BackUp Tetard/Test.pdf"}
but this doesn't:
make new attachment with properties {file name:"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/BackUp Têtard /Test.pdf"}
I remember vaguely that I read somewhere that AppleScript can work with Unicode — in other words with such characters — starting from some version, don't remember which exactly, but it seems to me — Leopard.
I am on Mac OS X 10.4.11 right now. Will updating solve this problem? Does anybody know any solution to this problem: a scripting addition, some hidden setting, etc.
I made a little test: used a Russian character — ё and it works, but when I use — ê (Dutch) it doesn't. May it have something to do with the Region setting in International panel?
Thanks in advance,
Kasyan

Kasyan, as of Leopard AppleScript treats all text as Unicode pre this you can specify 'as Unicode text'. Try a test with these.
-- Leopard
set x to POSIX path of (path to desktop)
-- Pre Leopard
set x to POSIX path of (path to desktop as Unicode text)
-- Leopard
set x to POSIX path of (choose file without invisibles)
-- Pre Leopard
set x to POSIX path of ((choose file without invisibles) as Unicode text)

Display non-english characters in its own corresponding language in excel

Hello Experts,
I have description texts in chinese and other languages which is visible properly in the debugger in my internal table.
After downloading the data into an excel sheet into my file path, when opened the non-english description is displayed as ####
Please help me in displaying the non-english descriptions in the excel sheet in its own corresponding language.
Note: Function module used : GUI_DOWNLOAD
File type assigned : 'ASC'
Edited by: keerthi shanker on Mar 14, 2008 11:02 AM

Hello Vasanth,
Please explain about what did you mean by 'Last Button in SAP screen'
Well, to re-iterate my problem, I have data retrieved from SAP database that has values of multi languages which is displaying properly in the internal table as checked in the debugger.
After the execution of FM 'GUI_DOWNLOAD', when i open the file from my desktop, the non-english characters like the chinese and japanese are each character is displaying in HASH symbol.

Parsing Non English characters from OPEN DATASET

Hi Team,
I'm try to download the .txt file using the OPEN DATASET in the windows environment from application server, system language is set up for English.
The problem is, in the .txt file some times I will be getting the non-English characters (Spanish). When I try to download the data into SAP it's not downloading properly eg: ñ when it downloaded into sap it took something like A+_.
My goal is I need to download the Spanish characters properly into sap.
Please advice how to solve this problem.
Thanks,
Selvaraj

Hi Selvaraj!
I haven't checked the situation for 4.5B, nor can I predict exact behavior, but you can give following statement a try:
SET LOCALE LANGUAGE lg.
This should even change content of sy-lange for whole role area (internal session), so change the value back afterwards.
Regards,
Christian

External Tables & Non English Characters

Hi
I am new to external tables, i wanted to know what i need to do to upload the data which is of non-English characters,
Example
i need to upload the data where the single file will have data for more than one non-english characters.
1. English
2. Chinese
3. Korean
let me know if any other alternative exists for the same.
Regards
Yram

Hi,
a good reference for External Tables is the manual: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/part_et.htm
If they are in one file, you can upload them all at once. Important will be how the data is stored in the file (UTF-8, UTF-16). This information you should set in the external table by using the CHARACTERSET clause, see the manual.
Your database also needs to support these characters!
Herald ten Dam
htendam.wordpress.com

Removing non-English characters from data.

Ours is global system with some data with non-English characters. We want to download file by removing this non-English characters.
Any suggestions how we can remove these non-English characters from file..?

The FM u said
     Replace non-standard characters with standard characters
   Functionality
     SCP_REPLACE_STRANGE_CHARS processes a text so that it only contains
     simple characters. Special characters and national characters are
     replaced in such a way that the text remains reasonably legible.
     The character set 1146 is used by default. In this case the following
     replacements are made, for example:
      Æ ==> AE        (AE)
      Â ==> A         (Acircumflex)
      Ä ==> Ae        (Adieresis)
      £ ==> L         (sterling)
     Note that the new text can be longer than the old.
So i dont think it ll be useful for eliminating the sp. chars.
U have to check each and every alphabet with std 26 alphabets
Thanks & Regards
vinsee

Download IR to PDF Non-English Characters

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for