RE: CPYTOSTMF character translation redux

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Hi David,

Are you absolutely certain that your source physical file on your UK box is
CCSID 037? It could now be 285. This may be what is causing your
mistranslation.

In 037, $ is x'5B'.
In 285, $ is x'4A'.
In 285, x'5B' is <pound currency symbol>.

The the hex representation of the $ in the source physical file, possibly
via DSPPFM would show something.

As for how to work out how it got there, here goes my understanding.

When keying data in and writing it to disk, the keyboard type, display file
CCSID, job CCSID & disk file CCSID all have a bearing on what occurs.

In your case, the display file, if the keying in is done via SEU, should not
have too much bearing on what is occurring. The answers to keyboard type
(real or emulated), job CCSID and disk file CCSID should at least tell us
what is happening on the input side of the CPYTOSTMF.


Regards,

Kevin Wright

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@midrange.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 8 December 2002 1:37
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: CPYTOSTMF character translation redux
>
>
> At 07:56 PM 12/6/2002, you wrote:
> >It isn't clear what you mean by "translated incorrectly". Do
> you mean the
> >hex value is incorrect or that it displays incorrectly?
>
> A dollar sign typed into the source pf shows up as something
> other than a
> dollar sign in the stream file.
>
> >In particular, is the hex representation of the "$" (US dollar sign)
> >correct when the file is viewed in hex? If it is, then I'd
> look at the
> >character set being used by whatever device is doing the display.
>
> To be honest, I haven't looked at the hex representation of
> the characters
> ... I really don't expect any weird translation to occur, as
> a dollar sign
> is part of both the basic ascii & ebcdic character set.
>
> The source pf is a standard ccsid 37, and the stream file code page is
> *PCASCII ... that translation does not seem like it should be rocket
> science to me.
>
> david
>
>
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