What is ISO-8859 in SAP BC-ABA - ABAP Runtime Environment?

SAP Term: ISO-8859

• Component: BC-ABA

• Component Name: ABAP Runtime Environment

• Description: Standard for 8-bit character sets whose first 128 characters are identical to ASCII. The associated code pages ISO-8859-1, -9, -14, and -15 Latin1, -5, -8, and -9 cover the western European characters; ISO-8859-2 Latin2 covers most eastern European characters; ISO -8859-3 Latin3 contains characters for Esperanto and Maltese; ISO-8859-4, -10, and -13 Latin4, -6, and -7 cover the northern European Baltic, Greenlandic, and Lapp characters. Also covered are: Cyrillic ISO-8859-5, Arabic ISO-8859-6, Greek ISO-8859-7, Hebrew ISO-8859-8, and Thai ISO-8859-11.

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• Key Concepts: 
  ISO-8859 is an international standard for character encoding. It is used to represent text in computers, allowing for the representation of characters from different languages and scripts. It is used in SAP's ABAP Runtime Environment (BC-ABA) to store and process text data. 
  
  How to use it: 
  ISO-8859 is used in the ABAP Runtime Environment to store and process text data. It is used to represent characters from different languages and scripts, allowing for the representation of text in computers. 
  
  Tips & Tricks: 
  When using ISO-8859 in the ABAP Runtime Environment, it is important to ensure that the correct character encoding is used for each language or script. This will ensure that the text data is stored and processed correctly. 
  
  Related Information: 
  For more information on ISO-8859 and its use in SAP's ABAP Runtime Environment, please refer to the official SAP documentation.