On 24 October 2013 23:49, Ze'ev Atlas <zatl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal with > once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue is a > make or break issue. MongoDB works decidedly with UTDF-8 and I need COBOL to > natively view a string as UTF-8. Does the current incarnation of COBOL (and > perhaps PL/I) have a native UTF-8 string type. If not, then I will abandon > the whole project.
I'm doubtless blowing (or something) into the wind again, but this sounds like a place for UTF-EBCDIC. Which is easily translated to and from UTF-8 if that's what goes on the wire. (I'm assuming your UTDF-8 was just a typo.) Presumably it would be a good start if COBOL could see and manipulate the subset of UTF-EBCDIC that is EBCDIC strings that would live as UTF-8 in the database. Then when COBOL learns to handle UTF-EBCDIC, it could handle the complete UNICODE set. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr16/ Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
