Re: iconv and CCSID 1208 to 37

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did some more debugging and I'm finding something else.

I'm reading the data from a socket and converting it from 1208 to 37.
But the data I read in is x'62B8' not x'C2BD' as would be expected, so
maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm having an issue with iconv when converting CCSID 1208 to 37.
>
> Special double byte characters don't seem to be converting back to
> their equivalent single byte character.
>
> For example, the 1/2 symbol which in EBCDIC 37 is x'B8' and 1208 is x'C2BD'.
>
> Converting from 37 to 1208 results in a proper conversion from SBCD to
> DBCS.  But then going backwards iConv spits out an error 3021 "The
> value specified for the argument is not correct".
>
> I decided to go ahead and test with Scott's HTTPAPI as well and
> although it doesn't throw the error, the conversion appears to be
> wrong and ends up as x'62B8'.
>
> First it seems as if iconv doesn't like converting back to EBCDIC, and
> when it does it doesn't make it a single byte... the error its
> throwing doesn't make much sense to me.  :)
>
> Any ideas?