Re: having Spanish characters display correctly within CCSID 37

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:00 AM Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know if UTF-8 is allowed on the CCSID
parameter - it says that DBCS CCSIDs are not - but not sure that 1208 is
DBCS.

It's weird to talk about DBCS today, because the world is different
than when the terms SBCS and DBCS were coined. Strictly speaking, 1208
(UTF-8) is neither. It uses a variable number of bytes per character,
sometimes 1, sometimes 2, sometimes more.

But that's kind of like when you are expecting 'Y' or 'N' but the
input is actually 'X'. I think in this case it is pretty safe to
conclude that "does not accept DBCS" is *really* saying "does not
accept anything other than SBCS". Therefore, I would not expect 1208
to work here.

John Y.