XML STRING TO XML UTF-8

[luisrobertofrancomx]

Hello,

I have an xml string variable like that contains spcecial characteres like "ñ" i try to to convert to UTF-8 and save it but when I do that I cannot see the values of the XML. please see my example code:

DATA: lv_e_utf8                 TYPE xstring,
      lv_i_keep_trailing_blanks TYPE xfeld,
      lv_i_xml                  TYPE string,
      lv_other                  TYPE c.
<br>
  DATA: v_length TYPE i,
        v_base64 TYPE string. DATA: it_xml_tempo TYPE string       OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
       it_temporal TYPE string OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE.
lv_i_xml = '<inicio><nombre>Luis Ñañamito</nombre></inicio>'.
  DATA: lv_ruta TYPE string.
CONCATENATE 'c:/complemento/'
               'PRUEBA.xml' INTO lv_ruta.
  CLEAR: it_xml_tempo.  REFRESH: it_xml_tempo.  FREE: it_xml_tempo.  APPEND lv_i_xml TO it_xml_tempo.  DATA: V_UTF8 TYPE XSTRING.
  CALL FUNCTION 'SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING'
    EXPORTING
      text           = lv_i_xml
*     MIMETYPE       = ' '
     ENCODING       = '4110'
   IMPORTING<br>
     BUFFER         = V_UTF8
            .
  IF sy-subrc <> 0.
* Implement suitable error handling here
  ENDIF.

  APPEND  V_UTF8 TO it_temporal.
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
    EXPORTING<br>
      filename = lv_ruta
      filetype = 'ASC'
    TABLES<br>
      data_tab = it_temporal. "it_xml_tempo.

When I save my field and open I only see:

What I need to do to convert my xml file into UTF-8 format to d

[Sandra_Rossi]

Function module GUI_DOWNLOAD is obsolete.

Replaced with method GUI_DOWNLOAD of CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES.

About the parameter FILETYPE, keep consistency, you should never mix characters with bytes, and bytes with characters (except when encoding/decoding):

XSTRING = bytes = BINary

STRING = characters = ASCii

[Melina404]

Hi @luisrobertofrancomx 

I'll appreciate you can share the solution you found, as we are facing same issue. 

Thank you !