Invalid Characteristics in Master data

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I have been getting invalid characteristcs errors for most of the master data's and therefore i have always been using RSKC for most of times, but whenever new master data records get updated, again i get Invalid chars error in the DTP.
My Client is Norwegian and they have gt a lot of characters/symbols on each Alpha + Numeric Keys.
I have thght of two options to solve this invalid chars error, once for all...!!!
1) Install the Norways language in BI itself
2) Write a routine in Transformations, (both in Attr and Text transformation mappings).
Can any help/suggest what shud be done in this regards. Or is their anything i shud to get the norwegian character .map
Thanks

Hi,
I am not sure whether you trie ALL_CAPITAL in RSKC or ALL_CAPITAL_PLUS_HEX.
These should cover all the languages and there special symbols...no matter from what key board is used.
There are some issues related to Turkish language I guess but still it should work for the nordic countries.
keep the alphabets in capitals and this settings should work or you can cjheck the option lowercase letters in the infoobject genral tab to keep the small case flowing into BW as well.
This you should do after you have installed norway language itself...I think you are getting this error because of the langugae not installed.
I am not sure whya norway based client has not installed norway language in BI system??
Did you checked if the language is installed or not??
Thanks
Ajeet

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