Transaction to manage special charactere in BW

Hi,
Is anybody could send me the transaction to manage special charactere ?
Best Regards
Gregory

Hi,
you are right with: the special characters in there are allowed in BW characteristics.
But: not all characters you enter are also allowed to enter in there. I just had the issue, that I was not able to enter the euro sign € in there.
regards
Siggi

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