Legacy text mode

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Hi Experts,
I am working on a program that opens a file writen in English. It works perfectly fine.
The syntax is as follow: OPEN DATASET f1 FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
I then add some French in the file, I get a dump - Exception of CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE.
The following is the run time analysis:
   At the conversion of a text from codepage '4110' to codepage '4103':
   - a character was found that cannot be displayed in one of the two codepages;
   - or it was detected that this conversion is not supported
   The running ABAP program 'ZWCO_DISPLAY' had to be terminated as
   the conversion would have produced incorrect data.
   The number of characters that could not be displayed (and therefore not be converted),
   is 3. If this number is 0, the second error case, as mentioned above, has occurred.
I finally change the open file syntax as follow:
OPEN DATASET f1 FOR OUTPUT IN LEGACY TEXT MODE.
I don't get any dumps, but the file becomes empty.
Please tell me what I am doing wrong here that clears my data in the file.
Thanks,
AS.
Edited by: Matt on Jan 27, 2009 3:43 PM

Hi Anna
This is what is writen on the F1 help of open dataset error handling help...
... IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS
Effect:
This addition can be used to suppress a treatable exception defined by the class
CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE. This exception can be triggered during
reading or writing if conversion between codepages takes place and a character
cannot be converted to the target codepage.
This addition is possible when opening text files, legacy text files, or legacy binary
files, but not when opening binary files.
Notes
Each unconvertible character is replaced during conversion either by the character
"#", or with the character defined by the addition REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
The addition IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS controls whether or not the user
is notified of this by an exception.
This setting can be changed in an opened file using the statement SET DATASET.

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