Re: Chinese characters in an interface file

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:14 PM Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I also agree with her in terms of "tossing" data is likely to become a
> problem some day, but that could be handled.  You would just need to
> correctly identify/tag the data with the correct EBCDIC CCSID (or, if you
> really want to do it right -- define the fields/columns as CCSID 1200
> (UTF-16).

Why would UTF-16 be "right"? Why not just UTF-8 (CCSID 1208), if the
data is coming in as UTF-8?

To be clear, I believe you certainly could use UTF-16. I don't think
that would be *wrong*. But it would be nice to know the rationale
behind introducing another encoding that isn't already involved in the
process.

John Y.