Re: pragma convert of string literal

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik, I must admit to lack of experience with mixed CCSID, so maybe this is a dumb question.  That's never stopped me before, though, so: ... Can you store your source in the IFS, in your desired CCSID, and improve the result that way?  Or is that what you're doing and I'm totally missing it?

"Erik Olsson" <erik.eo.olsson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Dennis.
>
> Eliminating the pragma has no effect. Or rather, implementing the
> pragma has no effect.
>
> Man, I am _not_ a fan of EBCDIC. I can't have the source in my job
> CCSID as the editors I'm using (jedit for instance) quite naturally
> can't handle EBCDIC but this means I'm harassed by the compiler for
> daring to have source in anything but CCSID 37... Yuck.
>
>
>
> 2011/3/4 Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Well, unless I'm misreading, the documentation seems ambiguous since
> it
> > doesn't indicate whether the CCSID in question is the SOURCE or
> TARGET
> > CCSID, and doesn't indicate whether "the other side" is the Job
> CCSID,
> > the file CCSID or something else.  You seem to think it's for
> specifying
> > TARGET, and that SOURCE is the file's CCSID.  (You may be right; I'm
> > playing devil's advocate here.)
> >
> > What happens when you eliminate the #pragma?
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> > those we don't like?"
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Olsson <erik.eo.olsson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-to: C programming iSeries / AS400 <c400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: C programming iSeries / AS400 <c400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [C400-L] pragma convert of string literal
> > Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:52:27 +0100
> >
> > this:
> >
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