Re: XML Translation Problem

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

IBMi dosn't support UFT-8 code points or HTML encoding and as far as I know
EBCDIC
dosn't either support "greater than or equal" character



On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Michael Naughton <
michael_naughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've got an application where I'm passing data to an RPG stored procedure
> using XML (the data is coming from a web page via Lotus Domino, but I'm not
> sure that's relevant). In the stored procedure, I use XML-INTO to load the
> data into
> externally-described data structures and then store it in the associated
> physical files. Everything was going fine until we discovered today that
> some of the data contains some oddball characters -- e.g. "greater than or
> equal to" (U+2265). The XML
> string is coming in as "&#8805;", which looks right, but the character is
> not getting into the physical file correctly.
>
> I figured it had to do with the CCSID of _something_, and my first guess
> was the file. I tried changing its CCSID from 37 (our default) to 65535 and
> also 819, but neither of them worked. I also tried 1208, but CHGPF didn't
> like that one. I've googled
> around on the web, but a lot of what I find seems to assume that I know
> what CCSID I'm aiming for, but that's my problem -- I don't know how to
> figure out what CCSID might work.
>
> As you can tell, I'm pretty new to all this. Am I on the right track?
> Should I be looking at the job's CCSID as well? At this point, I'm not sure
> where to begin ....
>
> Thanks very much in advance,
>
> Mike Naughton
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Judd Wire, Inc.
> 124 Turnpike Road
> Turners Falls, MA  01376
> 413-676-3144
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> mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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