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  3. March 2006

Moving bytes from a SBCS EBCDIC field to a DBCS Unicode field without translation

As I recall from experiments I conducted some months ago, when I try to move data from a character (SBCS EBCDIC) field to a graphic (DBCS Unicode) field in RPG (the actual bytes are already DBCS Unicode), the RPG runtime assumes the source data is EBCDIC, and garbles it by forcibly translating it and/or inserting SI/SO control characters.
My experiments never got far enough to find a way to avoid this translation. Is there an easy way?
Would it be as simple as overlaying (e.g., as a coincident field in a data structure) a Unicode field on the source field, and using the Unicode overlay in the MOVE/MOVEL statement? Or is there a different approach that's better? 

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JHHL

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