Re: DB2 UTF-8 fields used in RPGLE

Henrik,

I thought that CSSID 1200 is UCS-2, but it's not: it is in fact UTF-16;
13488 is UCS-2. So you should be able to support all Unicode characters
through CCSID 1200. But, as Wikipedia states, 'Because the most commonly
used characters are all in the Basic Multilingual Plane, handling of
surrogate pairs is often not thoroughly tested.' I wonder what RPG will
make of characters in additional planes.

Joep Beckeringh

Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Re: DB2 UTF-8 fields used in RPGLE

Joep,

Im am trying to make a middleware that fully supports all Unicode
codepoints.

UTF-8, that supports all Unicode codepoints, is the de facto standard in
any web
application, I just need ways of storing it in either a SBCS field or in

a

DBCS
hybrid that supports double DBCS characters (4 byte sequences).