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John,

65535 = "Hex". It means that the bytes it references are not text data. In other words, they don't represent letters, symbols, etc, that can be displayed to a human being. Instead, the bytes are used by their actual binary values.

The goal of 65535 is to tell the system "never attempt to translate this to another character set".

37 = The data *is* text data. The bytes do represent characters that a human being can read. They are encoded in the flavor of EBCDIC used in the USA, Canada, Netherlands, and a few other places.

If someone who uses a different CCSID (such as someone using a German, British, French, Russian, etc, terminal) needs this data, automatically translate it from the USA type of EBCDIC to the one they need.

To provide any more specific info than that, I'd have to know the context.


john morency wrote:

What is the difference between 65535 and 37?



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