RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Reading a file in the IFS

Hi everyone
Just wanted to bring everyone up to date
I first found out how to read files in the ifs via RPG with the following web page
https://www.rpgpgm.com/2016/03/a-better-way-to-read-file-in-ifs-with.html

about 12 to 15 months ago and have used it quite a few times in numerous different projects

My latest situation has been solved by someone not in this e-mail group

The calculation of the open mode needed to be changed in the following manner

OpenMode = 'r, o_ccsid=37' + x'00' ;

And the field OPENMODE had to be increased – I changed it to char(20)

And with this one change – there is no longer a problem in reading the ifs files

Alan Shore
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From: John Yeung [mailto:gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Reading a file in the IFS

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:35 AM Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

.. So if you see the same error for your file the use
CHGATR OBJ('/tmp/utf8error.txt') ATR(*CCSID) VALUE(1252)
.. to bring it back to window-1252 (latin-1)

I'd like to discourage people from thinking of Windows-1252 and
Latin-1 as the same encoding. By now everyone is probably familiar
with the "smart (curved) quotes" encoding problem.

Well, the difference between Windows-1252 and Latin-1, combined with
people mistakenly thinking they are equivalent encodings, is PRECISELY
why this problem occurs.

See

https://i18nqa.com/debug/bug-iso8859-1-vs-windows-1252.html<https://i18nqa.com/debug/bug-iso8859-1-vs-windows-1252.html>

I will say that IBM and others "who should know better" don't help to
make this distinction clear, given that they are, at best, sloppy with
the terminology they use, even in apparently official published
materials.

John Y.