Importing Unicode data to the System i -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Importing Unicode data to the System i
From: "sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:24:14 -0500
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I have a Unicode text file created by containing double-byte (Simplified)
Chinese data that I need to import to the System i. This file has a
preamble (BOM) of x'FFFE', indicating that it is UTF-16 Low-Endian. How do
I go about getting this data into a physical file with the appropriate
CCSID? (I believe the correct CCSID is 935...)

1) How do I deal with low-endian data?
2) Will l need to copy it to the IFS and read it with an RPG program, using
iconv() to convert the data before writing it to the PF?

Regards,
sjl

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