Alignment correction for structured data in containers

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Symptom
If a (character-like) structure is stored in a simple field of ABAP type C (or STRING) and this field is transported from a non-Unicode system to a Unicode system or vice versa and the data contain full-width (East Asian) characters, the alignment of the structure is not correctly preserved.
Other terms
Unicode, full-width characters, [...]