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  3. February 2005

Re: setting CCSID of QZDASONIT jobs


On 01/03/2005, at 4:44 AM, Eric Lee wrote:

I don't think I can use a particular LANGID because I need to be able to
write to the file with no conversion
taking place as I do not necessarily know what language the user is going
to be using. (It's a web app) 

Then use UTF-8 at the client and store the data in Unicode at the host.

My problem is that I will need one application to write to different files
with different CCSIDs.

As opposed to a single file using 65535 where you won't know what language a given record is written in?

Using Unicode at the will make this easier.

When I try to use a CCSID other than 65535, some characters may not be
found
in the CCSID table and these seem to get written out as hex 3F  which
consequently
causes other problems.

x'3f' is the standard substitution character. That's what is supposed to happen when the two CCSIDs are not inter-operable. See the CRDA Reference for more information.

I did try changing the LANGID of the user profile but I think this was
overriden by the CCSID of the user
profile UNLESS it was 65535, in which case the QZDASOINIT job did seem to
get the CCSID for that
particular LANGID. eg. if LANGID was set to SVE then it would set the job
to 278 + Swedish.

More correctly it will use the Job default CCSID which is set from the language ID of the job (which is set from the user profile). See the help text for Coded Character Set Identifier and Job default CCSID on the DSPJOB panels.

I think you need to spend some time reading the Globalisation section of the Information Centre and design your application to cope in a multi-lingual world rather than look for work-arounds (which is what it seems to me you are attempting).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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