Re: Spooled File with Mixed Code Page Data

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

I  remember a few years back having this issue (or one VERY similar) with a
customer.  After a few 2am meetings (for me.. haha..) of testing,
debugging, etc, we hadn't figured anything out.  And not for a lack of
trying.

While the data in the converted file looked good (hex-wise) nothing was
able to interpret it correctly (ie PDF, HTML, etc).  We chalked it up to a
IBM i "oddity" that only it was able to interpret, and the rest of the
computing world became baffled with the mixed data.

I know this doesn't help, but I just thought I'd share.

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We have a customer spool sample that contains mixed US (37) and Asian
> characters in an *SCS  spool file. Spool is generated by JDE World I
> believe.
>
> Apparently the primary code page on the machine is English and they have
> an Asian language as secondary.
>
> Is there a way to extract one of these spool files and keep both
> characters intact and convert to Unicode perhaps.
>
> The spools seem to be a mix of Single and Double-Byte.
>
> We can use the JT400 APIs is there's anything relevant there.
>
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> RJS Software Systems Inc.
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