Re: Having a conversion error on the degree symbol...

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad,

Try to use the 0_CCSID flag instead of 0_CODEPAGE

d o_ccsId         c                   const(32)




On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, all!
>
> I'm having an issue where a PF contains a degree symbol (ebcdic hex 90
> code page 37) and when trying to write data to a stream file that
> includes this symbol it seems to be mucking it up big time.
>
> All the xlation tables I've seen for 819, 1252, etc seem to state it
> should be converted to ASCII hex B0, but it looks like it's converting
> it to hex'0E E0 D2 0F'
>
> So,
>
> N°
>
> gets converted to
>
> N  àÒ
>
> I found a thread on another board with the same issue with no resolution.
>
> The conversion is being done with the stream file APIs using
> O_CODEPAGE for the conversion.
>
> Anyone ran into this before?  Or have any ideas?
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
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