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2523303 - Apostrophe character printed as # when copy-pasted from external application

Symptom

After pasting a text containing an apostrophe character (') into an SAP form, it is converted to a hash or pound character (#) when it is printed or when the text is saved.


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Environment

  • SAP R/3 4.6C
  • SAP ERP 6.0, all releases
  • SAP NetWeaver, all releases
  • SAP S/4HANA on-premise, all releases
  • SAP ABAP Platform, all releases

Product

ABAP platform all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP NetWeaver Application Server all versions ; SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP all versions ; SAP NetWeaver all versions ; SAP R/3 4.6C ; SAP S/4HANA all versions

Keywords

MS Word, Microsoft Word, MS Outlook, Microsoft Outlook, special character, Latin1, U+2018, Left Single Quotation Mark, ‘ , KBA , BC-CCM-PRN , Print and Output Management , BC-SRV-SCR , SAPscript , Problem

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