Basis Errors and Solutions

Symptom

Looking for a code page for Cyrillic characters.
Looking for KOI8-R or KOI8-U.
Other terms

KOI8-R , KOI8-U , SCP , Cyrillic, Russian, Ukrainian
Reason and Prerequisites

Question about code pages suited for Cyrillic characters.

Off the shelf a SAP system supports following code pages for Cyrillic characters:
nameSAP numberIANA charasetISO-8859-51500iso-8859-5Microsoft 12511504windows-1251IBM PC-8661503ibm866UTF-84110utf-8

Additionally there are a couple of SAP code pages for Cyrillic printers.
Of course you can use Cyrillic characters when using other Unicode encoding forms (UCS-2, UTF-16, UTF-32).
Also many East Asian code pages contain Cyrillic characters. But they typically correspond to fonts, which display these characters with extended widths.
KOI8-R and KOI8-U did not have a corresponding SAP code page number for many years. As a couple of customers required these code pages, they have been created now with the numbers 1510 and 1509. A transport file for program RSCP0025 has been attached. Also the code pages will be transported with future service packages and releases.

Solution

For NetWeaver releases 6.10 and higher:
Please install corresponding Support Package.
In case the Support Packages are not available or cannot be installed,
there is the attachement ‘koi8.zip’. If the three files are extracted to a PC directory, then they can be imported with the tool RSCP0025.
As these are SAP code pages, the tool will ask for an SAP owned package which shall own the code pages. Please answer with “SCP”.

As code pages are stored in database tables, it is always possible to create own code pages with transaction SCP. If you do so, please select a number greater or equal than 9000. Please be reminded that creating own code pages is a customizing action. Therefore, when you need support from SAP, it is considered as a consulting issue as described in SAP Note 83020.

Release 4.6D and older?

For Basis Releases 4.6D and older SAP will not supply these code pages. In those releases the transport files cannot be used. If you plan to create the code page on your own, then use transaction ‘SPAD’ instead of ‘SCP’.