Languages, Code Pages, and Conversions

Use

The following table shows some of the ISO code pages that are administered in the SAP system and the related Microsoft (ANSI) code pages that are administered for communication with Microsoft programs for an SAP System without Unicode character sets. If the numbers of the related SAP (ISO) and SAP (frontend) code pages are different, data must be converted.

Note Note

The table does not contain all possible code pages and blended code pages. For a more comprehensive overview, see SAP Note 73606.

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Microsoft code page

SAP (frontend) code page (based on the Microsoft code page)

SAP language code to ISO 639

SAP (ISO) code page (based on the ISO standard)

No. of the ISO standard character set (basis for SAP (ISO) code page)

Conversion required?

Microsoft Windows Western Europe 1252

1100

AF (Afrikaans), DA (Danish), DE (German), EN (English), ES (Spanish), FI (Finnish), FR (French), IN (Indonesian) IT (Italian), MS (Malaysian), NL (Dutch), NO (Norwegian), PT (Portuguese), SV (Swedish)

1100

ISO 8859-1 (00697/00819)

No

1255

1800

HE (Hebrew), EN (English)

1800

ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew)

No

932

8000

JA (Japanese), EN (English)

8000

Shift JIS

No

8300

ZF (Chinese), EN (English)

8300

Traditional Chinese

No

950

8400

ZH (Chinese), EN (English)

8400

Simplified Chinese

No

949

8500

KO (Korean), EN (English)

8500

Korean

No

8600

TH (Thai), EN (English)

8600

Thai code page ISO988/2533

No

Microsoft Windows 1250 for Eastern Europe

1404

CS (Czech), HR (Croatian), HU (Hungarian), PL (Polish), RO (Romanian), SK (Slovak), SL (Slovenian), EN (English)

1401

ISO 8859-2

Yes

Microsoft Windows 1251 with Cyrillic

1504

BG (Bulgarian), RU (Russian), UK (Ukrainian), EN (English)

1500

ISO 8859-5

Yes

Microsoft Windows 1254

1614

TR (Turkish), EN (English)

1610

ISO 8859-9

Yes

Microsoft Windows Greek 1253

1704

EL (Greek), EN (English)

1700

ISO 8859-7 (Greek)

Yes

MS Windows Western Europe 1252

6114

AF (Afrikaans), DA (Danish), DE (German), EN (English), ES (Spanish), FI (Finnish), FR (French), IN (Indonesian) IT (Italian), MS (Malaysian), NL (Dutch), NO (Norwegian), PT (Portuguese), SV (Swedish)

6100

ISO 8859-1 (00697/00819)

Yes

Microsoft Windows 1250 for Eastern Europe

6124

CS (Czech), HR (Croatian), HU (Hungarian), PL (Polish), RO (Romanian), SK (Slovak), SL (Slovenian), EN (English)

6100

ISO 8859-2

Yes

MS Windows Greek 1253

6174

EL (Greek), EN (English)

6100

ISO 8859-7 (Greek)

Yes

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6101

JA (Japanese), EN (English)

6100

Shift JIS

Yes