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  3. October 2013

Re: UTF-8 STMF

Actually, *PCASCII means that it will compute a flavor of ASCII based on the flavor of EBCDIC that you are using. So whether it happens to be ISO-8859-1 (which has the same values as UTF-8 for 7-bit characters) or not will depend on which version of EBCDIC you're starting with.

And ISO-8859-1 is not exactly a 'subset' of UTF-8. It's true that for a 7-bit code point, that they are the same, and this includes the commonly used letters in English, but any character above code point 127 is different.


On 10/22/2013 5:52 PM, TheBorg wrote:
Robert -

Did you try sending the PCASCII file to the vendor for processing?

FWIW, PCASCII is a /subset/ of UTF-8...

Unless the vendor is expecting the UTF-8 file to have a byte order mark
[which is highly unlikely], there is no difference between a file encoded as
ASCII and a file encoded as UTF-8 - the data representation is the same.

-sjl





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