3753322 - The "&" in the Production Memo is printed as "<(>&<)>" on the production order output

You have maintained the Production Memo which contains the "&" character in a sales order and the content has been passed to the production order. However, on the production order output, the "&" is displayed as "<(>&<)>".

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

1. Maintain a Production Memo in a sales order that will be copied to the production order, including the "&" character.
2. Open the corresponding production order and print the data list.
3. Observe that the "&" character is rendered as "<(>&<)>" in the printed output.

This is a standard system behavior.
When entering an ampersand, the system interprets it as a variable and replaces it internally by "<(>&<)>".
When printing, system just take the ASCII part of the long text and thus prints "<(>&<)>".

A solution of this is to edit the text (or remove the excess characters) in another Editor:

This Editor can be accessed by clicking the Detail button of the Production Memo:

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