Re: dbcs vs unicode

Hi Steve,

We have a DBCS system (English u/l, Simplified Chinese) and exchange data
with NT and Unix boxes w/o problems. Yes, DBCS support is part of OS/400,
just order the languages you need. Note that your primary language must be
DBCS.

There's some good documentation available at
http://www.iseries.ibm.com/developer/dbcs/index.html

Best,
Bernd Schäfers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@AutoCoder.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: dbcs vs unicode


> Anyone with knowledge of as400 dbcs support vs unicode on the unix and
> windows platforms.
>
> Is the dbcs, code page support of the as400 anything like unicode?
>
> Are they compatible?
>
> Is as400 dbcs compatible with other platforms?
>
> When sending an email msg from the as400 or posting a web page, what
> encoding method is best to use?
>
> I see that the unicode used in windows is just 1 version of unicode. The
> windows version is 2 bytes per char. But since even 2 bytes is not enough
to
> represent every char in every language in the world, another version has 4
> bytes. Since this wastes a lot of space, other versions provide a varying
> nbr of bytes per char. The issue does not look like it has been resolved.
>
> The primary question though is dbcs support of the as400.  Is it a dead
end?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Richter
>
>
>
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