RE: Double byte environment

Chris,

There is an area of IBM Partner World for Developers run by Masakatsu Yasui
which addresses Japanese DBCS issues.  He is developing documentation on
porting to Japanese on the AS/400.  I have included a copy of one of his
e-mails.

I am interested in doing Japanese localization as contract work over the
internet.  I have some knowledge of the Japanese language and I know the
AS/400 well but it would take me some research to begin actually doing the
localization.

Bill Brekke

www.brekkeresearch.com



yasui@us.ibm.com

To those who are interested in DBCS,

Today Section 7 "Porting from the Other Platform" has been appended.  There
will be two aspects in this project - porting to AS/400, and DBCS
enablement.  Porting information is already available on the URL
(http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/porting/index.html), but it will not be
effective to take these two steps to achieve AS/400 DBCS.  Instead my
discussion point is to take one step approach deploying Unicode (UCS-2)
technology, and Java or C/C++ languages are assumed.

Your questions or comments are most welcomed.  Please check out the URL (
http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/dbcs/guide.html).

Thanks and regards

* Masakatsu Yasui - DBCS Assignee to PartnerWorld for Developers, AS/400
* Bld: 658C  Office: B116 Tel: 507-253-0848 T/L: 553-0848
* FAX: 507-253-4884  Internet: yasui@us.ibm.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of
Chris.Chambers@v2music.com
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 6:26 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Double byte environment


We are upgrading to a double byte environment to cater for the Japanese and
Greek alphabet.

These Japanese/Greek users will only use a package that caters for those
alphabets.

However...
we are unable to get clear answers from other software suppliers as to
whether
their software will continue to operate successfully.

Do we need to recompile the programs or will they just adjust automatically
so
that our existing English language applications continue as normal.

Any advice gratefully recieved.

Cheers,

Chris

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