Re: CPYFRMIMPF and Unicode - UTF-16 in particular

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:)  This is just not an option here - it sounds like a nice way to do 
it, hey, Java can handle this stuff more easily, I believe, and that's 
no option, either.

Thanks for the suggestion - someday I may get to take a look at Python.

Cheers
Vern

On 2/27/2013 5:09 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> OK, bear with me:  You can use iSeriesPython for this.
>
> Assuming you have a faithful byte-for-byte copy of the files in the
> IFS, you can open them in Python in binary mode to get a stream of
> bytes.  Then decode as necessary.  For example,
>
> f = open('NotepadUnicode.txt', 'rb')
> bytes = f.read()
> unicode_data = bytes.decode('utf_16_le')
>
> At that point, unicode_data will be a string of Unicode characters,
> which you can then either process directly with Python or encode into
> a more favorable encoding and save back to the IFS for something else
> to process.  For example,
>
> output = unicode_data[1:].encode('utf-8')
> f2 = open('UTF8.txt', 'wb')
> f2.write(output)
>
> (Note that the [1:] strips off the BOM.)
>
> Seriously, if Python is on the table, give it a try!
>
> http://www.iseriespython.com
>
> John