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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raikov, Lo" <Lo.Raikov@MISYS.COM>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: How to display German "extra" characters


> I'm sorry to pop in like that, but the message quoted is not quite correct
> on several accounts.
>
> First of all, translation tables in QUSRSYS are used only for CHRID
> character conversion (I forget now what parts of OS make use of them -
> pre-version 3? one of them was OV/400, now extinct). Most of the
CCSID-based
> character conversion makes use of core translation tables one cannot
modify.
> Second, ODBC is usually CCSID-aware. Please refer to CA/400 documentation
> for details. Third, Unicode is now supported by AS/400 (Oops! iSeries
> eServer 400? eSeries iServer 400? never mind), so you can actually choose
> whether to store your data in Unicode, DBCS code pages (IBM double-byte
> coding scheme) or SBCS (single-byte coding scheme).
>
> I suggest you browse the following manuals (both available on I-net):
>
>  AS/400 International Application Development
>  AS/400 National Language Support
>
>
> Lo
>
> >Michael,
> >Welcome to the brain-bending world of NLS! Firstly, you should keep the
> >system code page as US (037) if you are in the US. The AS/400 translates
> the
> >characters according to the code page tables in QUSRSYS (for example
> >Q857A7AA3S is Windows 857 to Turkish 1026). Sometimes you have to modify
>
> etc.
>
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