SAP Note 382285 - Some characters are converted to '#' in SAP WinGUI

Component : Internationalization (I18N) -

Solution : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/382285 (SAP Service marketplace login required)

Summary :
When using SAP WinGUI on a Microsoft front-end, certain characters are replaced by ‘#’, triggering Message 195 which indicates prohibited characters. This issue arises due to character conversion discrepancies between Microsoft front-end code pages (e.g., 1252 and 1251) and SAP back-end ISO 8859 standard code pages (e.g., 1100 and 1500). Characters such as the Euro-Sign and "smart quotes" from MS Word are often impacted. For SAP Unicode systems, all characters entered are supported; however, on non-Unicode systems, users must avoid characters not supported by the system’s code page.

Key words :
sap front-end code page 1160, sap front-end code page 1504, front-end code page, back-end code page, ms word autocorrect-options, sap system code page 1100, sap system code page 1500, back-end code pages, current system code page, sap system code pages

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