RE: More Stream File and DBCS issues...

Hi Brad,

EBCDIC needs sO and sI bytes to signal start and end of DBCS, well shift out
of single byte and shift back in to single byte :)

ASCII does not need these flags.

Could it be that this is the "problem" you are seeing? 

Regards,

Kevin W. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2006 2:44 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: More Stream File and DBCS issues...


On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:54:41 -0500
 Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A fairly easy way to handle this is to do the processing
in ucs2.  (At
least, it's easy, if your string doesn't have more than
16383 total
characters, since that's the maximum number of UCS2
characters that RPG
supports.)

D lparen     c              %ucs2('(')
D rparen     c              %ucs2(')')
D apos       c              %ucs2('''')
D string     s      16383c  varying
   string = %ucs2(charstring);
   --- use all the same code as you had before 
   ---   p = %scan(lparen : string);  etc
   charstring = %char(string);

Thanks again for this, Barbara.  It seems to have gotten me
one step further.

The only issue I'm having now is it seems the sI and sO
characters are either getting replaced or not transferred
properly, but I need to find out where that is happening.

It seems to be happening in the WRITE to the stream file.

Brad
www.bvstools.com
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