3712463 - Missing special characters during payment medium creation

Some special characters like '&' in supplier name is deleted when creating the payment medium.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

1. Create a payment file using the standard payment format like ES_CGI_XML_CT.
2. Observe that the "&" character in the supplier name is omitted in the payment medium.

Using the standard payment format ES_CGI_XML_CT as an example.
In the "Map Format Data for Payments" app, the conversion function for the <Nm> (supplier name) field includes the "Exclude characters" setting.
The excluded characters are set in Format Mapping Properties as: ^"$%&{[]}=`´*~#;_!'<>|

1. Copy the standard payment format to create a new custom format.
2. Remove the special character like '&' from the exclude characters list in Format Mapping Properties. 
3. Use the new custom format in the payment method.

Special Character, Payment Medium, Exclude Chars, Map Format Data for Payments, Custom Format, Format Mapping Properties, Conversion Function , KBA , FI-AP-AP-B1 , Payment transfer (w/o DE, US) , Problem