WDSC 6.0 Unsupported Chaqracter Encoding -- WDSCI-L

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I have been using WDSCi 6.0 with IBM i 7.1 for a couple weeks now. Windows XP. Yes, I know it is old, and unsupported, and I should upgrade, but I am at a client, and they haven't done it yet. So today about mid-day it started giving me an error when attempting to open a source file, that error is: Unsupported Character Encoding. Character encoding "UTF-8" is not supported by this platform.

I have tried shutting down and restarting WDSCi, I have tried rebooting. No joy. I didn't make any changes to my environment, and I asked about the i, and no changes were made there either.

One strange thing I noticed earlier before this all failed was that WDSCi was having trouble writing to some metadata file. That might be assiciated. And in my research, I noticed that the workspace is stored in the IFS. I have no trouble opening the workspace files from green screen, they look like XML files. I don't know where it is getting the UTF-8 character encoding as my source files all have ccsid 37.
So I am stuck. Can anyone help?

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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