RE: Question(s) on converting names and addresses to UNICODE

Alan;

We are looking at a project to re-architect our address and name files, centralize and standardize them, UNICODE etc.

One of the things on my list to research is if the 6.1 support for text indexing/searching would work for customer and/or business names and aliases.

I have only done some cursory research on it but at the moment it looks like it will fit our needs.

Duane Christen


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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:34 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Question(s) on converting names and addresses to UNICODE

Morning Neill
Thanks for your reply
Now its my turn to say
I hope I haven't misread your reply
We are passing the data to a 3rd party vendor software (looking back at my initial e-mail I now realize I missed that important word - software) This 3rd party software is used in printing the invoice, shipping label etc We have asked them what would it take for them to process UNICODE fields.
There first question was, how long/big will these fields be Hence, my question to the e-mail group


Alan Shore
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/21/2009 06:54:52 PM:

Do you really need to pass the data to a third party to convert it? Or

have

I misread the question.

Anyway if you want your fields to be Unicode you have a couple of

choices,

CCSID 1200, 13488 or 1208. The first two are effectively the same and

store

the values as UTF-16 the later is UTF-8 (which is becoming more
popular)

The rest of my answer depends on your answers to the following?

How many languages do you currently support?
What CCSID's are you using?
Are you prepared to recompile / refactor programs?
Whats your dev environment RPG COBOL, Synon site?

Neill

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: 21 July 2009 21:29
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Question(s) on converting names and addresses to UNICODE

Good afternoon all
I hope I can ask the correct question, so here goes We have been asked
to look into converting our Name and address fields

from

EBCDIC to UNICODE to capture "foreign" characters Part of that
conversion is the passing of said names and addresses to a

3rd

party vendor
This is NOT really a technical question per se, but I don't really
know where to start investigating the following question.

For ALL the names and addresses that have to be captured world wide
(in whatever characters that will be passed down), what would be
considered a good "size" for fields like first name last name Address
lines (including street names, city names, provinces, county

names,

country names etc. etc.)
Like I said - not really a technical question, but if someone knows
the answer, or can point me in the right direction, it would be MUCH
appreciated


Thanks in advance



Alan Shore
Programmer/Analyst, Distribution
E:AShore@xxxxxxxxxxx
P:(631) 200-5019
C:(631) 880-8640
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