Re: Special characters conversion

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So when your program reads the display file, and it has the field in 
memory, is that field x'4a'?  Or x'ba'?   When you subsequent write it 
to your PF, is that when it translates the data?  Or is it when your 
program reads it from the display file?

What is the CCSID of your job?   What is the CCSID of your RPG program? 
 What is the CCSID of your file?  What is the CCSID of the particular 
field in the file where the data is written?


On 10/21/2010 12:28 PM, Coyle, Stephen F. wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> The users are entering the special characters into a display file and
> saving back to the physical which stores the text. When they enter and
> save a left bracket, the PF shows the cent sign with x'4A'. I'm not sure
> why it becomes 4A. That's what has me confused. When I subsequently
> inquire on the record from the display file, it displays correctly as a
> bracket. Yes, I am not writing anything to my conversion file. I just
> take the text character and lookup to my conversion file, the problem is
> I read a cent sign from the text file but I have a left bracket as the
> key field in my conversion file so I don't get a hit.
>
> - Steve