Re: CCSID

Yes, Bruce is right that visual inspection is not reliable with CCSID! You need to know what the hex code is really. You can look at that in the file by doing a DSPPFM and F10/F11.
Otherwise you get the situation where if you sign on to a system in France your screen interprets the e with an acute accent as 'left curly bracket'!

cheers,

Clare

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Vining" <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: CCSID


It's the LANGID of ENG that's causing the default job CCSID to be 285. For
further information, see
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/nls/rbagsjobdefaultccsid.htm
and
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/nls/rbagslngidsdefaultccsids.htm

A quick test of WRKMBRPDM indicates that it is CCSID sensitive, so I'm
wondering how you are determining that the £ became $. Are you relying on
visual inspection or are you looking at the underlying hex values (dsppfm
and f10). Visual inspection is rather iffy when working with different
CCSID encoded files and one display device.

Bruce Vining




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My programmer has encountered a problem he?s never seen on our iSeries
before.



He created a new source file (CRTSRCPF) in a new library, then copied an
existing source file into it using WKMBRPDM Option 3.



The original file has a CCSID of 37 and contained in it a £ symbol (that?s
a
pound sign). When copied into the new source file it contained a $ symbol
(dollar sign). Investigation revealed that the new file has a CCSID of
285.
The question is ? why?



Our SYSVAL QCCSID is set to 65535 (if it?s relevant). Presumably the new
file picked up the CCSID of the users job?



When I look at the attributes for any interactive job I see:



Language identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : ENG

Country or region identifier . . . . . . . . . . : GB

Coded character set identifier . . . . . . . . . : 65535

Default coded character set identifier . . . . . : 285



Can anyone explain where the 285 comes from, and what might have caused it
to change?



Thanks


Guy