Re: French Character Set

[EThompson@xxxxxxxx]

Bruce, thank you for your response.  I actually had to type in some French
messages to go out on billing notices for our French Canadian clients.  I
finally figured out I could do this by remapping some of my keyboard
characters.  It seems to work well enough.  Thank you for your response.

Elonna




Elonna,

Do you happen to have some French data already on your system?  If so,
have you tried to simply print it using your existing *PRTFs?

The reason I ask is that there is not a unique character set for the
French language.  There is a character set known as Latin-1 (character
set 697) which includes the characters typically used in French.  This
character set is also the same one used for English, German, Spanish,
Swedish, etc. and so I doubt that you need to do a whole lot of any
special work to print French.

Now there are different encodings associated with character set 697
and various countries.  France for instance tends to use a CCSID of
297 (which is defined as character set 697 and code page 297) while
the United States tends to CCSID 37 (character set 697 and code page 37)
so you may have to make sure some system/job CCSID settings are set
correctly.  If you happend to have some French data that you entered
on your system it is probably CCSID 37 (assuming you're in the United
States) and so should print OK as is.  If your French data was supplied
by someone in France then it is probably 297 and we may need to see
how your data file and job CCSID are defined.  If this is the case, let
us know.

There is a manual, International Application Development, which may
provide some assistance to you; but I suspect it has a lot more
information in it than you're looking for (or need).

Bruce

Elonna Thompson
CHCS Services, Inc.
Information Technologies
850-432-1700  x2204