Re: Question about processing interesting "UTF-8" characters from XML

On 2017-06-08 8:15 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Back to the horizontal ellipsis - in UTF-8 this is a 3-byte sequence, in hex, X'E280A6' - I see that in the XML file in the IFS that is tagged as CCSID 1208 - that's required.

In the UCS-2 value, this is a 2-byte sequence, x2026.

In the program I assign the UCS-2 value to a column in a PF that is CCSID 37 - it appears there as X'0E447f0F' when I use DSPPFM on the PF..

Hi Vern,

RPG has a (non)feature where it assumes that all alphanumeric data is in the mixed-byte CCSID (DBCS + SBCS) related to the job CCSID. For job CCSID 37, RPG would be assuming your alphanumeric data has CCSID 937.

To get RPG to assume that alphanumeric data defaults to the actual job CCSID, code CCSID(*CHAR:*JOBRUN) in the H spec.

If you had that CCSID(*CHAR) keyword to your H spec, RPG will put x'3f' in your character field, rather than the DBCS value.