Re: CCSID - RPG issues -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: CCSID - RPG issues
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:06:59 -0500
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On 2026-02-26 7:01 a.m., Gad Miron wrote:

...
UTF8 Hebrew presents no problem since it translates , in the built-in RPG
conversion,
to CCSID(424) without issues.

The problem lies with Spanish, French, Chinese,Russian, Greek, Arabic etc.
...

In your earlier message, you said that the target of the %SUBST was also CCSID(1208).

If you are converting Spanish, French data to CCSID(424), you would risk losing data since CCSID(424) does not have all the accented characters like à and é.

It would be good to add CCSIDCVT(*EXCP) so you get an exception if any CCSID conversion fails due characters in the source CCSID that are not in the target CCSID.

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