Re: Conversion issue on degree symbol

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info, Scott.  Is this in reference to using the %char
BIF on my field and it getting corrupted?

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi Brad,
>
> RPG has a rather weird default.  It doesn't use the job's CCSID by
> default, instead it uses the mixed-byte CCSID that's related to the job
> CCSID.
>
> So if your job is CCSID 37, RPG will use 937.  937 fully supports CCSID
> 37, but will treat the x'0e' and x'0f' as "shift-in" and "shift-out"
> characters, allowing it to also process Chinese symbols.
>
> You can override this default behavior by specifying
> CCSID(*CHAR:*JOBRUN) on the H-spec.
>
>
>
> On 10/31/2011 1:27 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:
> > Actually I found the issue here, and it wasn't the APIs...  I was
> > doing some other conversions on it and doing a %CHAR on the variable
> > and THAT is what was messing it up...  I'm still trying to remember
> > why I was doing that.  :)
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