Re: Reading Textfile coded in UTF-8

Scott,

Thank you very much for your excellent explanation

Regards

Jan

Am 14.10.2016 um 21:17 schrieb Scott Klement:

Jan,

Correct, the o_ccsid option specifies the CCSID of your program, NOT the file data. So o_ccsid=0 means the program uses the job's CCSID, if the file is UTF-8, it will translate from UTF-8 to the job CCSID when reading. Or translate the opposite direction when writing.

If you said o_ccsid=1208, then it thinks that your program's data (emphasize: your program) is in UTF-8. If the file is also UTF-8, no translation would occur. (So that is not what you want for this situation.)

-SK


On 10/14/2016 5:36 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup wrote:

Ifigureed it out. I have to set the second parameter so "r,o_ccsid=0"

Best regards

Jan
Am 14.10.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Jan Grove Vejlstrup:

Thank you Scott. The second parameter on fopen is "r,o_ccsid=1208".
Despite this I have to use iconv to convert from UTF-8 to EBCDIC.

Best regards

Jan

Am 13.10.2016 um 09:57 schrieb Scott Klement:

fopen()/fgets() work nicely with UTF-8. You need to use the o_ccsid
option on fopen().

On 10/12/2016 3:27 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup wrote:

Hello

Can I use fopen and fgets to read a textfile coded in UTF-8? Or have I
to use open and read and then convert from UTF-8 to EBCDIC and check
for
CR and/or LF myself?

Best regards

Jan