Re: Pasting Greek Characters into screens/datafiles

This is probably because your terminal session is configured for English.

Configuring your terminal session as Greek would be one solution, but
you're going to run into issues if the character fields in your
physical files are coded for English.

Ideally, you'd want to unicode enable your PFs....and use a unicode
enabled 5250 terminal emulation program; which PC5250 that ships as
part of System i Access for Windows is _NOT_.

The 5250 emulator that's built into System i Access for Web, which
runs in the browser is unicode enabled.

Check this article out:
http://www.think400.dk/files/Whats_with_these_ASCII_EBCDIC_Unicode_CCSIDs.pdf

HTH,
Charles



On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Brian Johnson <bjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Forgive my ignorance, but multi-language is not my forte.

I've been asked for functionality that allows the keying in, displaying,
storing, and printing of documents which need to contain Greek characters,
in addition to English characters.   Everything we've done in the past is in
English.  I've code the appropriate physical/display/print files, using
"Open" type for those fields that may contain multiple languages.  (Yes, I
understand Open wasn't necessarily required, but what the heck.)  I have a
Word document that contains some constants that I need to either hard-code
into display/print files, or enter into a physical file.  Whenever I try to
paste these characters in, all I get on the green screen is ??????.

Greek is installed on the iSeries, plus my iSeries Access has all the Greek
components installed.  I even have Greek enabled on my Windows XP
environment.  I've tried all sorts of variations, including changing my
interactive job to Greek, etc.  But I'm not getting the mix right.

What do I need to do to enable pasting in these Greek characters/words into
my green screen?

Thanks!
Brian Johnson

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