Moving bytes from a SBCS EBCDIC field to a DBCS Unicode field without translation -- RPG400-L

Subject: Moving bytes from a SBCS EBCDIC field to a DBCS Unicode field without translation
From: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:16:34 -0800
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As I recall from experiments I conducted some months ago,when I try to move data from a character (SBCS EBCDIC)field to a graphic (DBCS Unicode) field in RPG (the actualbytes are already DBCS Unicode), the RPG runtime assumesthe source data is EBCDIC, and garbles it by forciblytranslating it and/or inserting SI/SO control characters.

My experiments never got far enough to find a way to avoidthis translation. Is there an easy way?

Would it be as simple as overlaying (e.g., as a coincidentfield in a data structure) a Unicode field on the sourcefield, and using the Unicode overlay in the MOVE/MOVELstatement? Or is there a different approach that's better?

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JHHL

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