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Re: CPYFRMIMPF FROMCCSID(1201)

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
CCSID is described as UTF-16 BE and it seems to be a Windows "standard"
for text files.

It's not a Windows standard. Some Windows applications support it,
but it's definitely not what Windows itself is happiest with. Of the
four encodings directly supported by Notepad, "Unicode big-endian" is
probably the one that Windows is least comfortable with, because
Windows runs on little-endian hardware.

UTF-16 is an international standard, and can be thought of as the most
direct successor to UCS-2.

Vern recently had quite an extensive adventure with a similar scenario
to what you describe. Maybe he'll chime in with pointers and lessons
he learned.

Personally, I do practically all my IFS work in Python, which handles
various encodings with little drama or fuss.

John

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