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  3. November 2001

Character Set Conversion?

Hi all,

I have an RPG program that emits an XML document which is meant for an
expat XML parser running on an intel platform.  As data records are
assembled, they are converted to ASCII via the QDCXLATE api, and then
transmitted to the server.

The server has been working fine for several months, but over the weekend,
the parser failed with an 'invalid token' error.  One of the fields
contained a 'cent' sign, which the parser feels in an invalid
character.  In doing a bit of research on this issue, the parser expects
the data in character set UTF-8 -- any character whose ASCII value is
greater than 127 has to be encoded in more than one byte.

Q: How can I convert the data from EBCDIC to UTF-8?  Can it be done with
QDCXLATE?  or perhaps ICONV?  Or do I have to write a custom function?

Thank you.

Regards,
Rich

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