Re: how to hard code @ sign in RPGLE program with out having to worry about CCSID

rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 24-04-2009 19:32:00:

Scott Klement

What I don't know, however, is whether %CHAR() will convert to the
program's CCSID or the job's CCSID...? So you'll have to do some
tests to find that out.

Scott Klement says 'What I don't know..'??? Let's see what the manual has
to say: 'When converting between character and UCS-2 data, the CCSID of
the character data is assumed to be the mixed-byte CCSID related to the
job CCSID.' Aha, I don't understand that either. What on earth is 'the
mixed-byte CCSID related to the job CCSID'?.

So, indeed I tested. I created a program with CCSID 37 (well, actually
DSPPGM says that the program has 65535 and the module has 37) that
converted u'005B' ([) and u'005D' (]) to char. In a job with CCSID 37 that
became x'BA' and x'BB' ([] in CCSID 37); in a job with CCSID 500 it became
x'4A' and x'5A' ([] in CCSID 500).

Apparently the unicode data is converted to the job CCSID.

Joep Beckeringh