Problems and solutions related to Chinese character set in file operations in ABAP

In practical projects, especially some system integration projects, we often encounter scenarios where we need to receive and parse the binary stream sent from the remote end.The content of this binary stream may be some binary files, such as files in PDF, JPG and other formats, or may be text files.For text files, we need to restore the binary stream to human-readable text.This is the topic that this article will focus on.

Before starting this step, please be sure to complete the previous chapters:

How to upload local files in binary mode in ABAP report

This pre-chapter uploads a text file to the ABAP server in binary form to simulate a binary stream provided by a remote content provider (Content Provider), the type is xstring. The actual content of these binary streams is some text containing Chinese characters. Our task in this article is to convert these binary streams back into user-readable text, and then print them out.

We create a new text file, enter a Chinese character wang, save the file name as wang-utf8.txt, select UTF-8 for encoding.

The size of this file is shown as 3 bytes.This is in line with our expected behavior, because UTF-8 is an implementation of Unicode, and the Unicode value of a Chinese character ranges from 0X4E00 to 0x9FA5, which requires 3 bytes if UTF-8 is used.

We pass this