Re: Codepage issues with the slash character

It's called "Latin small letter c with cedilla", and you'll "see" a whole
lot of other characters as you move outside of 37 and 280...

One approach to handle this situation is to compile your program with the
literals (backslash in the current case, but perhaps other literals are
also being used) defined as variables in a known CCSID.  In your case I
would assume that your primary RPG source file is in CCSID 37 and so your
initialized variables would also be in 37.  Then at run time retrieve the
default job CCSID of your current job and convert your literals from CCSID
37 to the default job CCSID using APIs such as QTQCVRT or iconv.  You would
then compare the job default converted backslash to the value passed in to
the program by the user.  This approach would allow one compiled copy of
the program to handle variant characters such as the backslash.

Bruce



                                                                                
                                                     
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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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