Detecting language of a string

[Former Member]

Hi friends,

Need your help, there is one urgent requirement.

I have to treat a field in two different ways.

If string (content of field) is in English language, then i have to concatenate it in one way.

But if it's in Chinese then i have to concatenate it in another way.

Do we have any function module to detect the language or any SYST field for the same.

Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!!

[JuanCarlosDelga]

Hi Kulprakash,

can you use the system field sy-langu?

Regards.

JCD

[Former Member]

Value to that field will come from a table (also field is free flow means it is accepting value in any language.), and SY-LANGU will consider sap log on language.

So, its not working

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is it a standard table?

Regards,

Suman

[Former Member]

Yes it is REGUH.

PFB the screenshot along with field.

[kiran_k8]

KP,

REGUH means you are dealing with F110 Payment Run data.

Get the Vendor or Customr Code of that Invoice.

Based on the Vendor or Customer Code find out which country he belongs to using LFA1 or KNA1 tables.

Then based on that Country Code you proceed with your validation.

Will that suffice ?

Let's see what experts say.

K.Kiran.

Message was edited by: Kiran K

[Former Member]

Sorry, Table name is LFBK

[former_member202771]

Hi KP,

If string CS 'enter_all_chinese_characters_here'.    " something like 'AaBb...Zz'

Concatinate name2 name1 name3 to name.          "chinese format

else.

Concatinate name1 name2 name3 to name.

endif.

Thanks,

Anil

[Tomas_Buryanek]

Good luck hardcoding thousands of characters. I would not recommend this

And operator should be CA not CS in this use...

[raymond_giuseppi]

Try to identify a character in Unicode Chinese specific ranges (Actually CJK ranges for China, Japan and Korea)

Block	Range
CJK Unified Ideographs	4E00-9FFF
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A	3400-4DFF
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B	20000-2A6DF
CJK Compatibility Ideographs	F900-FAFF
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement	2F800-2FA1F

Regards,

Raymond

[Former Member]

Hi Kulprakash Sharma,

Please use the field BANKS( Bank Country) to check the language.

IF BANKS = 'CN' " Chinese

CONCATENATE  INTO STRING1....................

ELSE

CONCATENATE  INTO STRING2

ENDIF.

Regards,

Pravin

[Former Member]

Hi Pravin,

I checked the table, there are entries where BANKS = 'CN' but beneficiary name is maintained in English.

So, its not working.

Thanks!!

[former_member201275]

If it is definetly either English or Chinese then it is simple i.e.:

DATA: text(20) VALUE 'Testing'.
START-OF-SELECTION.
  IF text CA sy-abcde.
    "CONCATENATE FIRST_WAY.
  ELSE.
    "CONCATENATE SECOND_WAY.
  ENDIF.

But if you could possibly have other languages then of course this wouldn't work.

Hope this helps.

[Former Member]

For now, I am going with this solution but inconsistencies will come for sure in future.

Thanks!!

[former_member184569]

Well if its only English and Chinese that needs to be checked, then you can check, if its English and in the else condition concatenate the

if string CO sy-abcde.

*concatenate as in English.

else.

*concatenate as in Chinese.

endif.

[former_member273986]

I think way suggested by pravin s.(using Bank Country Key(BANKS)  ) will work as expected.

you should go with that.