RE: EBCIDC to ASCII table references?

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

You caught me in a generalization...  Encoding scheme 4105 isn't really
Windows -- it's ISO 8, SBCS, Graphics in C1 -- which represents Windows,
Apple, and a few other platforms.  The vast majority of the time what is
desired is the Windows CCSID and so I generalized 4105 to Windows rather
than using the correct definition (which few would consider overly
meaningful :-)  ).  In the table, and associated API, we went with the
Windows CCSIDs on the assumption that that would be the one most commonly
sought (and that wasn't ISO 8, SBCS, no code extension allowed (4100)).

The Apple CCSIDs can be found indirectly under ...Reference/Supported CCSID
mappings in that 1281 is listed as a valid mapping from 1026 though I admit
you have to wade through lots of other CCSIDs before you get to it.

Bruce Vining



                                                                           
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CDRA rocks, Bruce!  This is a meta-table that groups all the various
codepages by their "encoding scheme", which is basically platform- and
representation-specific, with platform being something like PC, while
representation is double-byte, single-byte, multi-byte, whatever.

The only thing I don't see is an encoding scheme for the various
Macintosh codepages (128x).  Any reason for that omission?

Joe


> From: Bruce Vining
>
> Forget tables and use the CCSID support found in i5/OS.
>
> To find an appropriate ASCII CCSID go to the V5R3 Information Center
and
> Programming/Globalization/Reference/CCSIDs/Associated CCSID values
will
> tell you given an input CCSID what is an appropriate ASCII/Windows/etc
> CCSID.  The table used encoding schemes to identify the type of
desired
> encoding and these can be found under .../CCSIDs/Encoding schemes for
> CCSIDs.  So if you have 1026 and want ISO you would look for encoding
> scheme 4100 and find that the corresponding CCSID is 920.
Alternatively
> if
> you want a Windows code page (encoding scheme 4105) you might want to
use
> CCSID 1254.

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