RE: UCS2 TO code page 037

Chinese characters cannot be converted to CCSID 37, because CCSID 37 
contains only single-byte US English characters.

    Alexei
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Hi Scott,

This logic is not working for Chinese characters stored in 13488.  Is 
there
something I need to do differently?

Thanks

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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:05 PM
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Subject: Re: UCS2 TO code page 037


> How can I convert UCS2 to code page 037 and then from code page 037 to
UCS2?
> Any examples?

UCS2 is CCSID 13488 (more or less) on the iSeries.  So you can do this:

      D input1          s             50A
      D output1         s             50C   CCSID(13488)

      D input2          s             50C   CCSID(13488)
      D output2         s             50A
       /free

         // from the job CCSID to UCS2

         Input1 = 'Nows the time for all good men';
         Output1 = %ucs2(Input1);

         // from UCS2 to the Job CCSID

         input2 = %ucs2('I love my dog spot');
         output2 = %char(input2);

         *inlr = *on;

       /end-free

Change it to CCSID(1200) if you want UTF-16 (which is a superset of 13488, 

I think.)