Re: Translating EBCDIC to ASCII

Thanks Bruce
I have saved this e-mail into one of my e-mail folders as this is something
of a gem


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Just in case they're not sure what their encoding is (many aren't) and
assuming we're talking strictly latin characters, see if it's possible for
them to send you the latin lowercase letter a with grave (Ã). If you
receive
x'85' then it's probably CCSID 850 (PC Multilingual); if you receive
x' C3A0' then it's probably CCSID 1208 (UTF8); if you receive x'E0' then
it's probably either CCSID 819 (ISO 8859 Latin 1) or CCSID 1252 (Windows
Latin 1). VERY loosely speaking, you can probably use either 819 or 1252 if
you receive x'E0'.

If you don't care for generalizations such as I made above about 819 and
1252, and you did receive x'E0', then have them send you the latin
lowercase
z with caron (Å). If you receive x'9E' then it's probably CCSID 1252
(Windows Latin 1). If you receive a blank stare and they say they can't,
then it's probably CCSID 819 (ISO Latin 1) :) And if you receive a x'1A'
then it's probably also CCSID 819 (ISO Latin 1) with
the letter replaced by a sub.

Please note that I have prefaced pretty much everything with "probably".
And
if you don't get any of the above values, please post what you did get.

Bruce Vining

PS - changing over to iconv is absolutely the way to go.





On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I want to thank both Vern and Simon for their response
I made another version of my program and changed the second version to

use

iconv
I'm still having problems as far as the socket situation is concerned,

but

I am waiting to hear from the other company so that I can ask him what
encoding the server interface expects/is
using before I can reliably convert the data.



Alan Shore
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On 11/03/2010, at 9:03 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

I am translation the EBCDIC to ASCII using the table QTCPASC using
the
QDCXLATE api, however my instinct is that this is probably wrong
I am waiting for the provider of the api to call me, but my question
I need
answering is
If that table is not the correct one to use, how do I find out what
table I
should be using?

You'll need to know what encoding the server interface expects/is
using before you can reliably convert the data.

Use the iconv suite of APIs to convert the data. Don't bother with
QDCXLATE--consider it deprecated.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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