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On 02/03/2007, at 2:55 AM, Brad Stone wrote:
Any of you gurus out there know what's going on? Is this just a "no-no" character for EBCDIC machines?
I see James has corrected the appalling ignorance regarding the name of this symbol. I would point out that Karat is a US variant spelling used for Gold purity. The rest of the English-speaking world spells it as Carat. You're obviously not alone because an earlier append showed an IBM message CPI3728 referring to the "tilda" character (meaning ~) which is correctly known as a tilde. Ignorance might be bliss but I find it simply embarrassing. Anyway, back to the question at hand:
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Check your code again.
EBCDIC X'B0' in CCSID 37 is the caret symbol ^
iconv() correctly converts this to ASCII X'5E' in CCSID 819
That's exactly what you want. I tested this three ways:
1) Using my own tool PRTICONV
2) Using EDTF to create a CCSID 819 stream file containing a caret
then using the hex display of DSPF to view the data.
3) Using DMP to dump the stream file and view the hex value in the
spooled file
Using the other information provided by James, namely that EBCDIC multinational (i.e., CCSID 500) has the caret at X'5F' and Spanish (CCSID 284) has the caret at X'BA' I found that iconv() correctly converts both of these to ASCII X'5E' in CCSID 819.
Given that all these methods DO work as expected the likely culprit is your code or the character you are converting is not really a caret.
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