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  3. February 2018

RE: CPYFRMSTMF & character conversion

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/14/2018
11:20:58 AM:
"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/14/2018
08:58:06 AM:
I know that 66535 means no CCSID conversion, that's basic stuff. An

academic question I've been wondering is, how are standard English
characters in the 1252 CCSID text file readable in the 65535 CCSID
PF
on my 37 CCSID system? Wouldn't that require some kind of
conversion?

There is a difference between conversion and translation.
I'm sure translation to EBCDIC will still take place. Those
characters that don't have a one-for-one translation probably retain
their original hex value.

But to what CCSID?


I don't know. But, think about it, 1252 is an ASC-II code page.
So, the only way that the word "sample" (as displayed on Windows) will
still display as the word "sample" on the IBM i is if ASC-II to EBCDIC
translation has taken place.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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