Re: CPYFRMIMPF and Unicode - UTF-16 in particular

Hi Chuck

I agree with your suggestions - trouble is, the scenario doesn't match their use. The files are being saved, perhaps, from Notepad, and we don't know which encoding the user chooses.

Or the files come as attachments to an email and are saved to a file share on the IFS.

CHGATR would work if we knew what the content encoding was. But some of these can be little-endian, so have to be converted anyhow - hence, Bruce' suggestion of that transform API.

i don't think we have good enough control of these files' encoding in order to limit the options. I'm going to work on something to determine what the encoding is from the contents - sort of like you said for graphic files, right? Another thread!

I appreciate the thoughts - it is always good to throw ideas around until the solution finds its merry way into my brain.

Cheers
Vern

On 3/1/2013 4:00 PM, CRPence wrote:

On 01 Mar 2013 13:09, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

These files are coming from a windows system, and they are usually
tagged with CCSID=1252.

Since CCSID(1252) is not UTF-16, that would be a problem.

I hoped that if I specified 1200 as the
FROMCCSID, that the file's CCSID would be ignored.

Assuming this specific thing has not changed since v5r3 [and docs
seems to suggest no change]:

The FROMCCSID() for CPYFRMIMPF is used to identify the CCSID of the
FROMFILE(); i.e. for a [program-described] database file as from-file.
The FROMCCSID parameter is even conditioned with prompt control, to
ensure that the parameter is not even visible unless a value has been
specified for the FROMFILE.

The CCSID for the FROMSTMF is always the CCSID of the STMF. Thus if
the stream files are improperly tagged, then improper effects are to be
expected. To correct the CCSID tagging, use the following request:
CHGATR OBJ(the_file) ATR(*CCSID) VALUE(1200)

FWiW: I often get the incorrect CCSID tagging on my STMF when I FTP
the data from a client; having forgotten to issue the following FTP
subcommand before the PUT subcommand:
QUOTE TYPE C 1200