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  3. January 2014

Re: DB2 UTF-8 fields used in RPGLE

Henrik,

What exactly are you looking for? Do you want to use Unicode in RPG or do
you specifically want to use UTF-8 encoding in RPG? Using Unicode is
simple enough through UCS-2 encoding (datatype C; CCSID 1200 or 13488 as
Bruce mentioned; implicit conversion by assignment or explicit conversion
by %ucs2 and %char).

Joep Beckeringh



Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Re: DB2 UTF-8 fields used in RPGLE

Unless I have overlooked something the RPGLE UTF-8 field support is
more or less useless since it in reality only supports characters in the
jobs SBCS EBCDIC CCSID :-(

It would be far better that the DB just passed the data "as is bytes"
so it could be passed to either a the jobs SBCS EBCDIC field or to
a DBCS field by using a %BIF.

Why on earth didn't IBM not just copy the DBCS support to UTF-8
support? Maybe Barbara Morris can answer that question?

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