Special Characters Report Painter

Hi all,
After SP 2008 implementation on ECC 5.0, special characters as : "( " ; "= "; "+" ; etc... are not recognized for one digit in report painter library.
After analyse, without changing size colums, if the title contain a special character, it is counting for 2 digits instead of one. The report painter doesn't truncate automatically the title and show a blank zone !
Is there an OSS note which correct this problem ?
(Our level of package is SAPKH519)
Thanks for your help !
Edited by: Lau bel on Jul 3, 2008 11:00 AM

Hi Aday,
Please check this links perhap it may help.
Report Writer:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/5b/d22ba743c611d182b30000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
Report Painter:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/66/bc7d2543c211d182b30000e829fbfe/content.htm
http://www.virtuosollc.com/PDF/Get_Reporter.pdf
http://www.sap-img.com/zf028.htm
http://www.sap-img.com/zf027.htm
Regards,
Ferry Lianto

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