Re: Find the ASCII value of a caracter in a RPG

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/31/2011 11:12 AM, David Gibbs wrote:
> LuisMaldonado wrote:
> > I need to find the ASCII value  of a caracter in a RPG.
>
> Use iconv.
>
> http://urlq.us/h or http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/apis/iconv.htm.
>
> Off the top of my head, I think the ASCII ccsid is 437.

There are about as many ASCII ccsids as there are EBCDIC ccsids. There's 
some APIs that will give the equivalent ASCII CCSID for a given EBCDIC 
CCSID.

First you call QTQGESP to get the encoding scheme for the EBCDIC CCSID 
(whether it's ebcdic-single-byte, ebcdic-mixed-byte-with-shifts, or 
ebcdic-double-byte).

Then you calculate the matching ASCII encoding scheme (single-byte, 
mixed-byte, double-byte).

Then you call QTQGRDC to get the CCSID that matches the EBCDIC CCSID for 
that ASCII encoding scheme.