Re: WDSC 6.0 Unsupported Chaqracter Encoding

["Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc." <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excelent, that fixed things.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- 
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/14/2015 01:50PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC 6.0 Unsupported Chaqracter Encoding

Could try creating a new workspace.  That seems to be the WDSC/RDi
equivalent of "rebooting" :)

Charles

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. <
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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