RE: Allowing accented characters in the database

... as long as you do not have to deal with eastern European languages ...

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, 28 August 2023 17:59
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Allowing accented characters in the database

The simple answer is nothing. CCSID 37 should be a full Latin-1 character set which includes the majority of normal accented characters such as à. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_37 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_37> for a full list. There has to be an IBM site that has it too but ...

Have you tried storing such characters in regular char fields? We do it all the time.


Jon P.

On Aug 28, 2023, at 11:20 AM, Dean Eshleman via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

We are on V7R3 currently (upgrading to 7.5 this month). Our system CCSID is 37. We are starting to get requests to allow accented characters like è in the database. What would we need to do to allow this?

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