Re: Spooled File with Mixed Code Page Data

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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