Re: Trademark symbol conversion from ASCII

If you are talking about the small, superscripted "TM" symbol, then
what you've seen is correct: There is no such symbol in any of the
"normal" EBCDIC encodings.

The proper solution is to use one of the Unicode encodings. These
days, UTF-8 (CCSID 1208) is preferred whenever possible, because
that's the de facto standard in the computing world at large. It's a
varying multibyte encoding (some characters are encoded as just one
byte, some are encoded as two bytes, some require even more), and some
older or less-well-designed applications may not be able to handle
that.

The next-best choices are CCSID 1252 (the typical Windows encoding,
not to be confused with CCSID 819 or 437, neither of which has the
trademark symbol) or 1200 (UTF-16, big endian).

I don't know the specifics of your requirements; if you cannot choose
another CCSID, then your current workaround may be the best you can
do.

John Y.
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