Re: Attempting to write to IFS andmissing turkish characters

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On 31 May 2012 09:19, John Allen wrote:
> I am attempting to write/create a txt file directly into the IFS the
> file contains Turkish characters  <<SNIP>>
> This file contains Turkish characters such as ÜŞ
>
> It appears using code 1026 these characters are Hex 7F and Hex 7C >
>
> For my test I did the following:
>  1)  Modified Scott's program CH5ASCII that creates and writes some
>      simple  text to a text file
>  2)  Changed the code that creates a new file to specify code page
>      1026 rather than 819
>  3)  Output some text including a Hex 7F7C
>
> Runs fine, but when the file is opened from the 400 (EDTF) I see a
> “@  I was expecting to see ÜŞ
>
> When I open it with Notepad I see gibberish
>  Ä…™@Ö¤¢‰•k%%É@“–¥…@£ˆ…@¦
>
> Obviously there is something I am missing
>
> Anybody know what I am doing wrong?

  Replacing 819 with 1026 is replacing ASCII with EBCDIC encoding. 
Perhaps 1254 is desired instead?

Regards, Chuck