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  3. May 2009

Re: Brain cramp: reading an IFS file from program running on PC

Gary L Peskin wrote:
Oh, I think I see what you're talking about now. Properties.load() assumes
that its argument is a stream using ISO 8859-1 encoding which is a kind of
ASCII. Your input stream ("is") is presenting characters based on the
native byte representation on the 400 since InputStreams don't take the
CCSID into account. I think you can create your own input stream class to
accomplish what you want. I haven't tested this (or even compiled it) so
take that into account. Also, you'd need to make adjustments where the
CCSID was not a single byte character set.

This is what I assumed the IFSTextFileInputStream class would do. Reading from a text file in Java should convert from EBCDIC to Unicode automatically.

Otherwise it seems to be a waste of code.

I'm 95% sure it DOES do that ... but I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

david



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