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On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:35 AM Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

.. So if you see the same error for your file the use
CHGATR OBJ('/tmp/utf8error.txt') ATR(*CCSID) VALUE(1252)
.. to bring it back to window-1252 (latin-1)

I'd like to discourage people from thinking of Windows-1252 and
Latin-1 as the same encoding. By now everyone is probably familiar
with the "smart (curved) quotes" encoding problem.

Well, the difference between Windows-1252 and Latin-1, combined with
people mistakenly thinking they are equivalent encodings, is PRECISELY
why this problem occurs.

See

https://i18nqa.com/debug/bug-iso8859-1-vs-windows-1252.html

I will say that IBM and others "who should know better" don't help to
make this distinction clear, given that they are, at best, sloppy with
the terminology they use, even in apparently official published
materials.

John Y.

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