RE: How to display German "extra" characters

["Raikov, Lo" <Lo.Raikov@xxxxxxxxx>]

You bet! :-) But DASD space for the developers of 400 has never been too
much of an issue. For instance, variable length fields are still rather an
add-on than a native feature of the DB2/400. imho.

Lo

-----Original Message-----
From: Clare Holtham [mailto:Clare.Holtham@btinternet.com]
Sent: 16 July 2002 17:57
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: How to display German "extra" characters


And presumably requires more disk?
Clare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raikov, Lo" <Lo.Raikov@MISYS.COM>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: How to display German "extra" characters


> Well, when you program in Java on the 400, Unicode-to-EBCDIC SBCS (and
back)
> translation tables are normally involved. After all, Java is a Unicode
beast
> and as such is fully supported by AS/400.  Of course, storing Unicode data
> in AS/400 database (DB2/400? DB2 UDB for iSeries 400?) is much less
common.
>
>
> Lo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clare Holtham [mailto:Clare.Holtham@btinternet.com]
> Sent: 16 July 2002 17:32
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: How to display German "extra" characters
>
>
> Lo,
> Thanks for the correction! Good to see things are moving on somewhat. I
> worked with an application that did use the translation tables.
> I didn't know that ODBC is now aware, though I did know that Unicode is
now
> supported on the AS/400 - but how many applications have taken it up??
> cheers,
> Clare
>
> ----- 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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