Just a side note

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all of you who do DBCS work on the iSeries, I salute you.

I've been researching the various BIFs, and the sheer amount of data that
you must sift through just to get the smallest glimmer of understanding of
the DBCS world is staggering.

It took me two hours to figure out how to write and compile a program that
actually had valid DBCS data in it.  Well, valid is somewhat misleading -
DBCS data that compiles is more like it.  My conversions to and from
character data don't go very well (lots of x'FEFE' and x'FFFD'), but that's
not my concern at this point.

As I've no clue what the DBCS value for the letter 'A' is (or whether that's
really a valid question), I'm happy getting the thing to compile.

Joe