RE: Brakets have wrong Hex code [] <--- these

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bruce!  You da man!  I looked at the table and it looked good!

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bvining@vnet.IBM.COM [mailto:bvining@vnet.IBM.COM]
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 2:38 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Brakets have wrong Hex code [] <--- these
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
> Try a table such as Q037337850 rather than QASCII.
> 
> The x'BA' and x'BB' codepoints you are seeing with your EBCDIC file
> indicate that your file is stored in a CCSID such as 37.  
> Your analysis
> of QASCII expecting x'4A' and x'5A', on the other hand, indicates that
> QASCII assumes you file is stored in a CCSID such as 500.
> 
> By using a table such as Q037337850 you are explicitly calling for
> a mapping from CCSID 37 to CCSID 850 (PC Multi-lingual) and not just
> taking whatever the S/38 (which is where QASCII comes from) used to
> assume for EBCDIC and ASCII encoding.
> 
> To really play it safe you could look (DSPFD) to see what CCSID the
> file is really in (I'm guessing 37 based on the two code points you
> provided) and then find the appropriate table in one of the appendixes
> to the International Application Development manual.
> 
> Or better yet stop using tables (which like QASCII are just hold overs
> from previous decades) and use CCSID based interfaces.  In your case,
> moving from I assume source files to stream files, CPY might do
> quite nicely.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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