Character Set Conversion?

[bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

QDCXLATE will not handle the generation of UTF8, but you could use
either iconv() or the CDRCVRT/QTQCVRT APIs.  The CCSID for UTF8 is
1208; the CCSID for your EBCDIC data will depend on your data.

Bruce

>
>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?
>