Re: Trying to display japanese characters from an IFS file

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From: Mohammad Tanveer <surgum@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Trying to display japanese characters from an IFS file
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2016 1:04 PM

I tried it with session ccsid 37
chgjob ccsid(930)
now when i type command I get command not found not sure why ...
> chgjob ccsid(930)
> wrklnk
Command wrklnk in library *LIBL not found.
Error found on wrklnk command.


That's because CCSID 930 does not have the lower case a-z in the same
locations as other code pages. When you type 'wrklnk' in to your 5250
emulator, it gets converted to whatever encoding you've set for the
keyboard/connection and the bytes get sent across and interpreted in 930
as something completely different. Of course, you still see it as
'wrklnk'
because your terminal is set that way.

[1]http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_
73/nls/rbagsinvariantcharset.htm

"EBCDIC code page 290 (for Japanese support) has Katakana characters at
the code points where lowercase a through z are in the invariant
character
set" (CCSID 930 is a Mixed EBCDIC CCSID that uses 290 as the SBCS code
page)


What you typed as 'wrklnk', the system saw as ******************. You
can
either change your keyboard to a Japanese keyboard or type everything
uppercase (since the A-Z are in the same location across all code
pages).


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