Languages, Code Pages, and Conversions
The following table shows some of the ISO code pages in the SAP System for an SAP System without Unicode character sets and the appropriate Microsoft (ANSI) code pages used for communication with Microsoft programs. If the numbers of the appropriate SAP(ISO) code pages and SAP(front-end) code pages differ, data must be converted.
The table does not contain all possible code pages and blended code pages. For a more comprehensive overview, see, for example, SAP Note 73606.
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Microsoft Code Page |
SAP (Front-End) Code Page (Based on Microsoft Code Page) |
SAP R/3 Language ID in Accordance with ISO 639 |
SAP(ISO) Code Page (Based on ISO Standard) |
No. of ISO Standard Character Set (Basis for SAP(ISO) Code Page) |
Conversion Required? |
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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 ISO 988/2533 |
No |
|
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Microsoft Windows 1250 for Eastern Europe |
1404 |
CS (Czech), HR (Croatian), HU (Hungarian), PL (Polish), RO (Romanian), SK (Slovakian), SL (Slovenian), EN (English) |
1401 |
ISO 8859-2 |
Yes |
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Microsoft Windows 1251 with Cyrillic |
1504 |
BG (Bulgarian), RU (Russian), UK (Ukrainian) EN (English) |
1500 |
ISO 8859-5 |
Yes |
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Microsoft Windows 1254 |
1614 |
TR (Turkish), EN (English) |
1610 |
ISO 8859-9 |
Yes |
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Microsoft Windows Greek 1253 |
1704 |
EL (Greek), EN (English) |
1700 |
ISO 8859-7 (Greek) |
Yes |
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Microsoft 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 |
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Microsoft Windows 1250 for Eastern Europe |
6124 |
CS (Czech), HR (Croatian), HU (Hungarian), PL (Polish), RO (Romanian), SK (Slovakian), SL (Slovenian), EN (English) |
6100 |
ISO 8859-2 |
Yes |
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Microsoft 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 |