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2571022 - Cost Element description incorrect when exporting to Excel from KSB1

Symptom

You display an actual line item report for cost centers in transaction KSB1 and you export the report to excel but the cost element description for certain characters with umlauts and other special characters (e.g. ö, ü, ä, Æ, Ø, Å) are not displaying correctly in the exported CSV file.

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Environment

  • Controlling (CO)
  • SAP R/3
  • SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7
  • SAP ERP Central Component
  • SAP ERP
  • SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP
  • SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
  • SAP S/4HANA Finance
  • SAP S/4HANA

Product

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP R/3 Enterprise all versions ; SAP R/3 all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Finance all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

KSB1, UTF-8, Cost Element, Excel, excel, unicode, cost element description, encoding, line item report, characters, symbols. , KBA , CO-OM-CCA , Cost Center Accounting , CO-OM , Overhead Cost Controlling , How To

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