Invalid characters (URGENT please)

Hello,
I have two independent systems where in one of the systems users maintain characters like (Á É Í Ó Ú Á É Í Ó Ú Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü.etc). I am not sure how many different type of characters users maintain but I want to populate all of these in the master data.
Because I do not know all the Special characters, I cannot mention all of them in RSKC. Is there any functional module that converts special characters like mentioned above in to English? ALTERNATIVELY, is there any other work around to sort it out
I cannot use ALL_CAPITAL in RSKC as well.
Thanks and Regards,
Harish Mulaka

Apparao,
We created a Function Module with this code and just call it in the Tranfer Rules for the specific InfoObject with Invalid Characters issue. It replaces any invalid character by " " (space).
""Local Interface:
*" IMPORTING
*" REFERENCE(I_VALUE)
*" REFERENCE(I_INFOOBJECT) TYPE RSD_IOBJNM
*" EXPORTING
*" VALUE(O_VALUE)
DATA: length TYPE I,
 index TYPE I,
 current_char TYPE C,
 result(60) TYPE C,
 infoobject TYPE RSD_IOBJNM.
CLEAR: result,
 infoobject.
MOVE I_VALUE TO result.
MOVE I_INFOOBJECT TO infoobject.
TRANSLATE result TO UPPER CASE.
length = strlen( result ).
index = -1.
DO length TIMES.
index = index + 1.
current_char = result+index(1).
CALL FUNCTION 'RSKC_CHAVL_OF_IOBJ_CHECK'
 EXPORTING
 I_CHAVL = current_char
 I_IOBJNM = infoobject
I_S_COB_PRO =
I_T_COB_PRO_CMP =
 EXCEPTIONS
 CHAVL_NOT_ALLOWED = 1.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
 MOVE ' ' TO result+index(1).
ENDIF.
ENDDO.
MOVE result TO O_VALUE.
ENDFUNCTION.
A sample call:
CALL FUNCTION 'ZFM_ELIMINATE_INVALID_CHARS'
 EXPORTING
 I_VALUE = TRAN_STRUCTURE-0MATERIAL
 I_INFOOBJECT = '0MATERIAL'
 IMPORTING
 O_VALUE = RESULT.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Luis

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