Re: Trying to display japanese characters from an IFS file

[Mohammad Tanveer <surgum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for detailed clarification... I am good now!

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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).
>
>
> References
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> 73/nls/rbagsinvariantcharset.htm
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