Alignment correction for structured data in containers
[Asian] [border] [characters] [Container] [containers] [correction] [data alignment] [East] [field] [fields] [full-width] [Structure] [structured] [technique] [Unicode]
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, [...]