Re: QDCXLATE not working as expected

Mihael,

Have you read the documentation for QDCXLATE? It says 'This API is
available for compatibility purposes or user-defined mappings only. Do not
use this API in new development; instead, use the iconv()--Code Conversion
API or the Convert a Graphic Character String (CDRCVRT) API.'

I suspect that QASCII is for CCSID 37 and that you are using a different
(German) CCSID. So it's probably better to switch to iconv, where you can
specify from and to CCSID.

Joep Beckeringh




From:
"Schmidt, Mihael" <Mihael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
"RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
16-02-2009 09:24
Subject:
QDCXLATE not working as expected



Hi,

i tried to convert some EBCDIC data to ASCII. I tried to use QDCXLATE and
the code looks like this:


D translate PR extpgm('QDCXLATE')
D length 5P 0 const
D data 32766A options(*varsize)
D table 10A const


D string S 100A

/free
string = '{ "Test" : true }';

translate(%size(string) : string : 'QASCII');

*inlr = *on;
return;
/end-free


I would have expected to see something like this in hex:
7B202254 65737422 203A2074 72756520 7D202020

But i got this in hex:
A2202254 65737422 203A2074 72756520 F0202020

The starting and ending curly braces are not correctly translated to
ASCII.
{ = 7B and not A2
} = 7D and not F0

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanx in advance

Mihael Schmidt
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