Re: CCSID (I think) problem

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Peter,

You wrote:
>Why assume that a PC in Canada is using CP1252 (where a cent sign has a
>codepoint of x'A2')?  Wouldn't CP863, Canadian French for the IBM PC
>(where a cent sign has a codepoint of x'9B'), be just as likely?  Not
>that this explains what's happening.

My assumption was that the PC is using WinDOS rather than DOS or OS/2.  If
WinDOS then it is likely one of the later variants (i.e., W95 or later)
which use the MS-Windows codepages.

CP1252 is MS-Windows Latin-1 which contains all (certainly most of) the
accented characters needed by the so-called Romance Languages of which
Canadian French is a member.  CP1252 contains all the accented characters
found in CP863 albeit at different codepoints.

It is quite possible that the PC is using a different codepage but we need
to know a lot more information about Denis' environment before we can
explain the observed behaviour.

>Also, CAExpress downloads typically do not translate if the CCSID is
>65535 unless specifically told to do so (a property of the transfer
>definition); one more piece of information we need.

I know but most people seem to set that attribute since EBCDIC hex data is
fairly useless on an ASCII PC.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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