RE: Local characters encoding problem

Thanks Bruce for very well structured questions.
I'm also confused.
What I meant by saying, that 1122 and 37 is the same, is the fact, that setting 
machine primary language to 1122 or to 37 has the same effect. Luckily OS/400 
is not translated to Estonian.

My program seems to work at 37 and respectively (Ä) has a code of 0x63 in my 
program
char c;
c = 'Ä' ;
printf("%02X\n", c) ;

gives 63

Now PC sends letter "Ä", that is received on this particular AS/400 as 0x24 
rather than 0x63.
All basic part of the table (latin letters and numbers) are not scrambled.

Actually I know have a feeling, that problem is rather on the PC side, that 
does wrong conversion....



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Vining [mailto:bvining@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:34 PM
> To: C programming iSeries / AS400
> Subject: RE: [C400-L] Local characters encoding problem
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> 
> I'm a bit confused (admittedly easily done) by this chain of notes.
> 
> CCSID 1122 (EBCDIC Estonian) is not identical to CCSID 37 (EBCDIC
> USA/Canada).  The Latin capital A with umlaut/diaeresis (Ä) 
> for instance is
> x'63' in CCSID 37 and x'7B' in CCSID 1122.  And neither CCSID 
> would use a
> value of x'0A' or x'24', as was suggested in earlier notes, 
> to represent Ä.
> 
> Can you provide the input value on the PC, the value 
> initially received in
> the iSeries application, the value you want to receive, the 
> default job
> CCSID of the receiving job, and who (what utility, 
> application, etc) is
> providing the ASCII to EBCDIC conversion for the Ä.  Values 
> such as x'0A'
> and x'24' suggest some form of round trip substitution is 
> being performed,
> but with the CCSIDs you mention there should be no need for such an
> operation (the Ä exists in both CCSIDs), or various control 
> sequences are
> being inserted into the data.  In either case there's 
> something going on
> that we need additional information about in order to understand what
> you're seeing.
> 
> Bruce Vining
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> Actually 1122 is identical to 37....
> So all bytes are left unchanged when applying this conversion.
> I have a feeling, that 437 must be somewhere...
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elvis Budimlic [mailto:ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:15 PM
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> > Subject: RE: [C400-L] Local characters encoding problem
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> > 00037 should be "to", so that makes 1122 as "from".
> > I would have thought ASCII is 00437 CCSID, but you know best
> > what CCSID it
> > comes in.  Now that I think about it 00437 may be just
> > English ASCII and it
> > sounds like you may be dealing with non-English ASCII CCSID.
> >
> > Elvis
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> > -----Original Message-----
> >  Subject: RE: [C400-L] Local characters encoding problem
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> > Here's misunderstanding. If I have a byte 0xYY, that came to
> > a job, having
> > CCSID of, say, 1122. I know, that the PC program sent letter
> > "Ä" in ASCII
> > and it have become 0xYY on the AS/400. If I will manage to
> > convert it to "Ä"
> > again, then everyhing is OK.
> >
> > So I assumed, that rather TOCCSID must be job's CCSID and 
> FROMCCSID is
> > unknown....
> >
> > My job's CCSID is nice 00037, but is it "from" or "to"?
> >
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