Re: Conversion issue on degree symbol

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, 0E/0F is definitely good old fashioned DBCS.

Joe

> Hi Bradley,
>
> That looks like some sort of EBCDIC double byte sequence, x'0e' being shift out (of single byte) then a single double byte character x'e0d2' then shift in (to single byte) x'0f'.
>
> What is the CCSID of the PF (&  field if applicable) ?
>
> What is the job CCSID? Job default CCSID?
>
> What is the CCSID of the stream file?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Wright
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
> > Sent: Friday, 28 October 2011 1:25 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Conversion issue on degree symbol
> >
> >
> > Hello, all!  I posted this on the RPG board but I think it will get
> > more exposure here and isn't necisarily RPG only related.
> >
> > I'm having an issue where a PF contains a degree symbol (ebcdic hex 90
> > code page 37) and when trying to write data to a stream file that
> > includes this symbol it seems to be mucking it up big time.
> >
> > All the xlation tables I've seen for 819, 1252, etc seem to state it
> > should be converted to ASCII hex B0, but it looks like it's converting
> > it to hex'0E E0 D2 0F'
> >
> > So,
> >
> > N°
> >
> > gets converted to
> >
> > N  àÒ
> >
> > I found a thread on another board with the same issue with no
> > resolution.
> >
> > The conversion is being done with the stream file APIs using
> > O_CODEPAGE for the conversion.
> >
> > Anyone ran into this before?  Or have any ideas?
> >
> > Brad
> > www.bvstools.com
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