Re: Pasting Greek Characters into screens/datafiles

James

You're right, there's no such thing as unicode data in the 5250 stream --
it's all single-byte-based. The workstation manager translates the unicode
fields on the screen (graphic type, ccsid 1200) into the code page of the
DEVICE you are using. Right before populating the output buffer it
translates from that code page back into unicode.

Brian

I had good luck with said unicode fields on screens, and running a device
with a greek (cyrillic, whatever) code page on it (at least a code page that
has a character set containing the odd characters you need). This is the
only character set you will "see" when the unicode data hits the display.
Luckily, most of the popular non-English code pages also contain capital and
lower-case english characters.

Stu



On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:57, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Brian Johnson wrote:

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

Actually, you probably need to code the fields as Unicode (I believe
that would be type "C" in RPG, but I'm not sure), and you would need a
terminal (or emulator) that handles Greek EBCDIC, in order to see
anything but "substitute" characters in terminal-based applications.

If there's such a thing as a Unicode 5250 data stream, I've never
encountered it, even in documentation.

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JHHL
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