Re: setting CCSID of QZDASONIT jobs

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/03/2005, at 4:44 AM, Eric Lee wrote:

> I don't think I can use a particular LANGID because I need to be able 
> to
> write to the file with no conversion
> taking place as I do not necessarily know what language the user is 
> going
> to be using. (It's a web app)

Then use UTF-8 at the client and store the data in Unicode at the host.

> My problem is that I will need one application to write to different 
> files
> with different CCSIDs.

As opposed to a single file using 65535 where you won't know what 
language a given record is written in?

Using Unicode at the will make this easier.

> When I try to use a CCSID other than 65535, some characters may not be
> found
> in the CCSID table and these seem to get written out as hex 3F  which
> consequently
> causes other problems.

x'3f' is the standard substitution character. That's what is supposed 
to happen when the two CCSIDs are not inter-operable. See the CRDA 
Reference for more information.

> I did try changing the LANGID of the user profile but I think this was
> overriden by the CCSID of the user
> profile UNLESS it was 65535, in which case the QZDASOINIT job did seem 
> to
> get the CCSID for that
> particular LANGID. eg. if LANGID was set to SVE then it would set the 
> job
> to 278 + Swedish.

More correctly it will use the Job default CCSID which is set from the 
language ID of the job (which is set from the user profile). See the 
help text for Coded Character Set Identifier and Job default CCSID on 
the DSPJOB panels.

I think you need to spend some time reading the Globalisation section 
of the Information Centre and design your application to cope in a 
multi-lingual world rather than look for work-arounds (which is what it 
seems to me you are attempting).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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