Re: Hex codes in position 5 are being mangled

[AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

The text encoding is CP1252.  As for your other questions, I can't answer 
them for this specific issue as it is the only time I've seen it happen. 
It is RPGLE, and only has the offending 'special' character in column 5.

I have noticed that the behaviour in most cases seems to be converting the 
x'22' to a ? (x'3f' in cp1252, x'6f' in cp037), which then gets pushed 
back to the iSeries as x'6f' rather than x'22'.  I don't know how to 
repeat the original problem, but my steps to repeat the problems I've just 
described are:

Create a new member in QRPGLESRC named 'MANGLETEST' using PDM
Using SEU, add 5 lines, each consisting of six blanks followed by '* 
comment' (without the quotes of course)
Using DBU (or some other hex editing method) to put character x'22' in the 
first position of line 1, second position of line 2, and so on.
In WDSc, find the MANGLETEST either in RSE or using the table view (I used 
the table view).
select the file, context menu->Add to iSeries Project.
Open the member that was just downloaded to a project.

The x'22' characters are now converted to x'6f'.  Note that if I simple 
Ctrl+Shift+A to open the member in the editor, the characters are 
correctly handled.

Hope this sheds some light on the issue,
Adam

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 24/05/2006 11:34:12 AM:

> Look at the file properties (select the file, context menu -> properties 
->
> info)? Is the text encoding CP1252? I'm assuming it is, but check 
anyway.
> Is this behavior specific to this column or a particular programming
> language?
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> Hi all,
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> I've searched the archives a bit but to no avail.  I seem to be having a
> problem with a character x'22' in position 5, when pushing changes from 
an
> iSeries Project.  The source file on the iSeries is CCSID 37.  If I do
> 'hex edit line' in WDSc, it shows that the encoding in the source CCSID 
37
> should be x'22', but when I push the member I end up with something
> entirely different:
> For the first seven characters:
> 
> WDSc reports:  Unicode= 0020 0020 0020 0020 0082 0020 002a
>                                CP1252  = 20 20 20 20 3f 20 2a
>                                CP0037  = 40 40 40 40 22 40 5c
> 
> When I push the member to the iSeries I end up with:
> 40 40 40 40 62 3F 40 5c
> 
> Some how x'22' is becoming x'623F'.  I have used this member in other
> iSeries projects with no problems.  Anyone have any ideas why this might
> happen, or where to start hunting for a solution?  I have to admit, my
> knowledge of how the translation from EBCDIC to ASCII/Unicode happens 
when
> using WDSc is woefully inadequate.
> 
> Any ideas would be much appreciated, as I'd really rather not reapply my
> changes to the production version of this source.
> 
> Adam
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