RE: Codepage issues with the slash character

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

We always use the forward slash for IFS paths within RPGIV.
Don't have a problem with that one.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@midrange.com
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:16 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Codepage issues with the slash character


Folks:

I've got an odd problem with code pages ... in one of our programs, the
users enters an IFS path... which we then validate (using some API
calls).

Most paths begin with a back slash "\" character (for backwards
compatibility, I think) ... and our program (RPG IV) checks the first
character to make sure it's a backslash.

This works fine on our machine (US based, code page 37) ... but on one
of our customers machines in Italy (code page 280) our program is
looking at the first character of that field and seeing something OTHER
than a backslash (kind of a cents sign with a tail, don't know what it's
called).

To be honest, I really don't expect a character as basic as a slash or
backslash to have a different hex value in two major language sets.

How are you supposed to deal with these kind of differences?

Thanks!

david



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