Re: Processing XML that has emojis - any pointers?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A little more on what the code is - here is what I believe is processing 
the nodes in question -

 when event = *XML_UCS2_REF
                or event = *XML_ATTR_UCS2_REF;
                 stackval(depth) += %char(%subst( ucs2val : 1
                                         : %div(stringLen:2) ));

UCS2VAL is declared as a data type C, that's all.

We are at 7.1 of the OS, so I think we do not have the newer support for 
CCSIDs and all.

How about changing UCS2VAL to and H type? Then do whatever we need to do 
with it?

Or have a table with a column that is UTF-8? And pull into the variable 
association with that? Am I being crazy?

Regards
Vern

On 2/13/2017 3:29 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Y'all
>
> We have data coming in that MIGHT contain emojis - not sure if we can 
> have a corporate rule to say don't do that, but it still might.
>
> We are using XML-SAX to process the XML - it works fine - until 
> someone puts an emoji to send the customer a bouquet or a nice face.
>
> I've suggested the source app put the text in a CDATA block - does 
> this look as if it should work?
>
> If not, other suggestions are welcome.
>
> Emojjs appear to have their own block in Unicode - the one's I saw 
> appeared to be 4-byte sequences - but I see there can be several 
> lengths, as, IIRC, UTF-8 can have.
>
> I've wondered about using a 1208-CCSID variable to pull in the data - 
> I'm trying to find where the source code is hiding right now!
>
> Help much appreciated!
>
> Vern