Re: Panel group and national character sets.

[Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your question "It should be possible to use any character set for panel
groups should it not?".

CCSID 278 uses character set 697 which is basically Latin-1 and covers a
wide number of western European languages as shown below:

CCSID Character Set Code Page Country/Language
00037 697                 37                 U.S.A., Canada, Netherlands,
Portugal, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand
00273 697                 273                 Austria, Germany
00277 697                 277                 Denmark, Norway
00278 697                 278                 Finland, Sweden
00280 697                 280                 Italy
00284 697                 284                 Spain, L.A. Spanish
00285 697                 285                 United Kingdom
00297 697                 297                 France
00500 697                 500                 Switzerland, Belgium
00871 697                 871                 Iceland
and more

so character set is not really your problem as it's the same across all of
these languages. You might notice though that while the preceding CCSIDs
all use character set 697, they do use different code pages. In the case of
CCSID 278 (code page 278) the code points x'D0', x'C0', and x'6A' map to
the characters a with ring above, a with diaeresis/trema, and o with
diaeresis/trema respectively which is what you want. In CCSIDs (code pages)
500 and 37 these code points however map to left brace, right brace, and
vertical bar respectively -- which is what you're seeing. This is in
contrast with CCSID/code page 277 where these code points map to a with
ring above, aesc/ash (æ), and slashed o (ø) respectively. So I suspect that
a different CCSID, such as 500, is coming into play here. Check your device
configuration and device CHRID and refer to this page
<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_71/nls/rbagsccsiduimpnlgrpsup.htm>.
And just to play it safe, perhaps look at your source file in hex to verify
the code point values that are stored.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:36 AM Åke H Olsson Datakonsult <
konsult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My system is operating under CCSID 278 (Swedish). All user profiles are
> also running under this CCSID and so are the interactive jobs.
>
> I have a source file QPNLSRC for panel group source. The CCSID for this
> source file also happens to be 278 - coincidentally.
>
> I use panelgroups exclusively for help texts for commands and displays
> but there is a problem with national characters that I do not seem able
> to get around.
>
> An example: I generated help source for a command. I then entered
> additional text for the various help sections and as the text is in
> Swedish it contains a bunch of the national characters like "a with a
> ring", "a with trema" and "o with trema".
>
> That all looks fine as I edit the source (in RDI or SEU).
>
> BUT when I run the command and call up the help text those characters
> all  come out as "{", "}" and "|"  instead.
>
> It should be possible to use any character set for panel groups should
> it not?
>
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