RE: CPYFRMSTMF & character conversion -- MIDRANGE-L

If the data remained in 1252, how would a 37 job know how to display it? The PF is 65535, so there's nothing to tell the OS what encoding the data has.

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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/14/2018
11:20:58 AM:

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/14/2018
08:58:06 AM:

I know that 66535 means no CCSID conversion, that's basic stuff.
An

academic question I've been wondering is, how are standard English
characters in the 1252 CCSID text file readable in the 65535 CCSID

on my 37 CCSID system? Wouldn't that require some kind of
conversion?

There is a difference between conversion and translation.
I'm sure translation to EBCDIC will still take place. Those
characters that don't have a one-for-one translation probably retain
their original hex value.

But to what CCSID?

I don't know. But, think about it, 1252 is an ASC-II code page.
So, the only way that the word "sample" (as displayed on Windows) will still display as the word "sample" on the IBM i is if ASC-II to EBCDIC translation has taken place.

Sincerely,

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