Re: Translating EBCDIC to ASCII

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/2010, at 9:03 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

> I am translation the EBCDIC to ASCII using the table  QTCPASC using  
> the
> QDCXLATE api, however my instinct is that this is probably wrong
> I am waiting for the provider of the api to call me, but my question  
> I need
> answering is
> If that table is not the correct one to use, how do I find out what  
> table I
> should be using?

You'll need to know what encoding the server interface expects/is  
using before you can reliably convert the data.

Use the iconv suite of APIs to convert the data. Don't bother with  
QDCXLATE--consider it deprecated.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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