IDoc to File - Russian Characters not in UTF-8 format - File Receiver

Question

Hello,
My scenario is Idoc to File. My SAP sender system is a Unicode system and my RFC connection to XI is also set to a unicode connection. My idoc is sent to XI OK and whenever I look at the payload in SXMB_MONI, I see the Russian characters OK, but the problem is when the file gets created.
My receiver system wants the file in UTF-8 format.  When the file gets created, the Russian characters are not in UTF-8 encoding format. For example, the Russian chars look like (but without the spaces inbetween): Ð # Ð µ Ñ # Ð ¶ Ð ° Ñ # Ð µ Ð » Ñ ...
Instead, the chars should look like: Держатель
My file type in my file receiver comm channel is binary and I am also using the AF_Modules/XMLAnonymizerBean with anonymizer.encoding of utf-8.
Can someone please help me determine the problem?
Thank you,
Rhonda

Answer 1

Hi Rhonda,
Hope you have set the following for your file receiver adapter :
1. Transfer Mode is set to Binary,
2. File Type Text,
3. Encoding ISO-8859-1( for Western European Latin ).
Inorder to recognize russian Character, try as follows :
Your sender idoc after coming into Pi has XML encoding declaration 'UTF-8'.
Write a simple XSLT mapping to change the value of the attribute "encoding" to "ISO-8859-1" in the output XML of message mapping . Include this XSLT map as the second mapping step in your interface mapping.
First step in your interface mapping will be your already existing message mapping.
An example of the XSL code :
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method='xml' encoding='ISO-8859-1' />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="*" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Iam not sure whether Russian language encoding has ISO-8859-2 (Eastern European Latin) or
ISO-8859-1( for Western European Latin )...pls check out !
or you can also do java mapping instead of above mentioned xslt mapping  if you are comfortable with java code !
Cheers,
Ram.