Symptom
In a unicode system, APD uses default encoding UTF-8 when creating and opening files. This is hard coded (method CL_RSAN_UT_APPSERV_FILE_WRITER->OPEN) and cannot be changed.
As a result, it may happen that opening an APD-generated .csv file in an external tool, such as Microsoft Excel or a text editor, the file contains unreadable/unexpected characters if it was not opened/imported with UTF-8 encoding.
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Environment
SAP NetWeaver 7.x
Keywords
"APD" "UTF-8" "encoding" "unicode system" "unexpected formatting" "unreadable" , KBA , BW-EI-APD , Analysis Process Designer , Problem
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