SAPGOF CodePage 8000 for Japanese to Unicode

Question

I am now using SAPGOF device type to print my SmartForms which contains Text with Japanese characters (using Included TexT).
The printing output from SAP produced the following data for the Japanese characters:
J8A94J8EAEJ89EFJ8ED0J8354J8367^J815B
I studied the Generic Output Format SAPGOF Rel_640.pdf and it only explained that ^J is for Japanese using SAP Codepage 8000 (page 13)
My question is: How do I map these SAP codepage characters to Unicode? Where can I find out more information (the complete character table for Japanese in SAP)?
Please advice and I promise to reward you.
Thanks and best regards

Answer 1

Hi,
Can i do something like this? I get the user input from the request object in a byte array as follows.
<%
String s = request.getParameter("txt1");
byte[] ss1;
ss1 = s.getBytes("UTF-8");
//value of ss1 to be stored in the database as binary value
%>
And instead of storing it in a string in unicode format and storing the string in the database, can I store the content in the byte array directly in the database? Can I make use of the datatype varbinary(binary varying as per ANSI 92 standard). Then I can retrieve the same, store it in a string in unicode format and display.
<%
response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
//ss2 is a byte array which contains the binary values retrieved from the database
String s1= new String(ss2,"UTF-8");
out.println("<br>Unicode text from database: " + s1);
%>
This way I can store and retrieve unicode values independent of Database servers I use. I need not have to configure each of them. Since ours is a web product we need to handle multiple languages like english, italian, chinese, japanese, arabic etc and also multiple Database servers like MS-SQL server, Oracle, MySQL etc. Can anybody tell how to implement the above said method?
thanx