Re: Hex codes in position 5 are being mangled -- WDSCI-L

Worked like a charm.  Three cheers for Unicode!

To save searching through the prefs, is there a way to set the default 
encoding for projects?  If you don't know offhand I can go pref-diving.

Thanks,
Adam

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 24/05/2006 04:47:47 PM:

> Try changing the project's text encoding to UTF-8. You'll find this 
under
> the project's properties -> info. It will probably say something like
> "inherited from container (Cp1252)".
> My guess is that you'll have to re-download the members that use the hex
> codes, but uploading them should then work if they are stored locally 
using
> UTF-8.
> 
> Round-tripping of the hex codes doesn't work if the local code page is
> Cp1252 (in fact, it looks like they are changed on download). The hex 
color
> codes are problematic in general - since they are control characters 
(5250
> attributes) they fall outside of the range of most code page 
conversions.
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> It's happened to me even in free format comments but appears most often
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> Thanks,
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> Look at the file properties (select the file, context menu -> properties
> ->
> info)? Is the text encoding CP1252? I'm assuming it is, but check
> anyway.
> Is this behavior specific to this column or a particular programming
> language?
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> Hi all,
> 
> I've searched the archives a bit but to no avail.  I seem to be having a
> problem with a character x'22' in position 5, when pushing changes from
> an
> iSeries Project.  The source file on the iSeries is CCSID 37.  If I do
> 'hex edit line' in WDSc, it shows that the encoding in the source CCSID
> 37
> should be x'22', but when I push the member I end up with something
> entirely different:
> For the first seven characters:
> 
> WDSc reports:  Unicode= 0020 0020 0020 0020 0082 0020 002a
>                                CP1252  = 20 20 20 20 3f 20 2a
>                                CP0037  = 40 40 40 40 22 40 5c
> 
> When I push the member to the iSeries I end up with:
> 40 40 40 40 62 3F 40 5c
> 
> Some how x'22' is becoming x'623F'.  I have used this member in other
> iSeries projects with no problems.  Anyone have any ideas why this might
> happen, or where to start hunting for a solution?  I have to admit, my
> knowledge of how the translation from EBCDIC to ASCII/Unicode happens
> when
> using WDSc is woefully inadequate.
> 
> Any ideas would be much appreciated, as I'd really rather not reapply my
> changes to the production version of this source.
> 
> Adam
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