3108657 - Files with Chinese/Thai/Cyrillic etc. characters in the file name cannot be uploaded in SAP system

• Filenames with Chinese/Thai/Cyrillic etc. characters cannot be uploaded in the SAP system.
• Other languages which use Latin characters can have issues with special characters, e.g. Polish language.
• The characters are seen as hash signs, i.e. #####
• The Exception for function module SCMS_DOC_CREATE_FILES is 2 = BAD_REQUEST Unknown Functions or Parameters
• Checking the SLG1 log for the User that has the issue the following entries will be seen:
  
  
  
  
  
  

SAP NetWeaver Basis release independent

Component #########, Error when uploading file, (file_open_error), file_open_error, SCMS_DOC_CREATE_FILES, *#*, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Japanese, Unicode, non-Unicode  , KBA , BC-SRV-COM-FTP , File Transfer via FTP , BC-SRV-KPR , Knowledge Provider , Problem