Utf-7/utf-8 encryption

Hi,
We have a requirement in which the payment list file generated after payment run(f110) is to be encrypted using utf-7 / utf-8 encoding.We are now using sap 4.6c version.
i tried using MD5 generator and client does't want that.
Are there any Function modules to encrypt the file into utf-7/utf-8 ?
Can you please share your views and help me to proceed further in the development.
Thankyou
Gowri

If you want to upload it to Application Server use
OPEN DATASET dset FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING UTF-8.
"then transfer
If for download on desktop use
DATA itab_str TYPE TABLE OF string.
APPEND 'Some text in UTf-8' TO itab_str.
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
EXPORTING
    filename                        = 'C:\utf.txt'
    FILETYPE                        = 'ASC'
    CODEPAGE                        = '4110' "UTF-8 codepage
tables
    data_tab                        = itab_str.
Regards
Marcin

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Ideograph languages were in use on computers before Unicode existed.
Excluding those most other languages, including arabic, are fairly easy to use if you work in that language.
Excluding explicit exclusive native support (such as java strings) with an exclusive language it wouldn't necessarily be the best code set choice either. If for no other reason than, except for english, it can take more storage space than using a different code set. And even for english UTF8 is the only one that takes the same space.
Unicode's primary strength lies in creating applications that must support multiple languages at the same time.
Keep in mind that selecting a code set for an application is probably the easiest part of creating an application that targets multiple cultures.
Currently there is also 32 bit and perhaps even a 64 bit code set.
Java actually uses a multibyte format of UTF16 where a sequence of 16 bit values can represent a single character.
[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/lexical.html#3.1]
The unicode site
[http://www.unicode.org/]

[SOLVED] Anki won't start. "Exception: Anki requires a UTF-8 locale."

When starting Anki, I get this output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/anki", line 5, in <module>
import aqt
File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
import anki.lang
File "/usr/share/anki/anki/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
raise Exception("Anki requires a UTF-8 locale.")
Exception: Anki requires a UTF-8 locale.
I have en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and en_US ISO-8859-1 uncommented in my locale.gen file, and have run "#locale-gen", but the out put of "$ locale" is still
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
Last edited by adeligen (2013-01-09 15:53:24)

Found the answer on the systemd wiki page. I guess I need to run "# localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.utf8"" to get it to configure /etc/locale.conf.
All is working now.

Zsh will not use UTF-8 but uses C [solved]

I have a new install and am using zsh-shell-config and zsh from the official repos. I have my locale set and it has been generated, but I see strange characters and cannot figure out why. en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 is the only thing uncommented in /etc/locale.gen.
If I type
% echo $LANG
C
the shell says C and not UTF-8 which causes the funny characters to be displayed.
% prompt -p
How can I fix this?
Last edited by maggie (2014-01-04 17:18:08)

maggie wrote:
% echo $LANG
C
Why is it not UTF8 like I set it to be?
That's your problem. Are you use that you defined the locale and generated the locales? Post the output of: `sed -e 's/#.*$//' -e '/^$/d' /etc/locale.gen` which will show all non-commented.
Last edited by graysky (2014-01-04 13:21:40)

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