Report Painter – japanese texts cut off in column headers

Symptom

You use a double byte language and try to enter a column header text within report painter. If you confirm the text change and switch back to the ABAP list it migth occure that the text is cut off. Some characters are missing if you re-enter the text popup for the column header.
Other terms

Report Painter, GRR2, Report Writer, japanese, korean, column header
Reason and Prerequisites

This problem is caused by a program error.
Solution

To solve the problem in advance as of all releases higher than 6.03,
implement the corrections under the section “Source code corrections”.
Please keep in mind, that in general the list output for double byte chanracters (e.g. japanese or korean) will only work correctly in case you use the maximum output length setting for the ABAP list.

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