Special character deletion issue

Hi all,
I have a text field which contains special characters which are not being entered by key board. I would like to repalce those chars. system is displaying these spl chars as '#'. I have used function module 'SCP_REPLACE_STRANGE_CHARS' , but it is replacing all the specail chars to dots(.), due to this if I have any valid chinese or japanese chars those are also getting replaced.
pls any can help me out to resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance
reddi

hi,
if you want use this fm
code as like below
check this program
RFFORI99
or
use like below
form special_character changing p_text_in p_text_out.
call function 'SCP_REPLACE_STRANGE_CHARS'
 exporting
 intext = p_text_in
 INTEXT_LG = 0
 INTER_CP = '0000'
 INTER_BASE_CP = '0000'
 IN_CP = '0000'
 REPLACEMENT = 46
 importing
 outtext = p_text_out
 OUTUSED =
 OUTOVERFLOW =
 exceptions
 invalid_codepage = 1
 codepage_mismatch = 2
 internal_error = 3
 cannot_convert = 4
 fields_not_type_c = 5
 others = 6.
if sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
 WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
endif.
endform. " special_character
Thanks and regards
durga.K

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