On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:17:17 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >For whatever its worth, once you determine what "ASCII" code page the source >is in and what EBCDIC code page you want the result in you can use Enterprise >COBOL native intrinsic functions to perform the conversion. Let's assume(!) >that the source code page is just the basic Latin-1/ISO-8859-1 (IBM CCSID 819) >and the EBCDIC code page is U.K. Latin-1 (CCSID 285)... > >MOVE FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF ( FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF (ASCII-IN, 819) , 285 ) TO >EBCDIC-OUT > >The "inner function" converts from ASCII CCSID 819 to UTF-16, and the outer >function converts from UTF-16 to EBCDIC CCSID 285. > >This doesn't, of course, answer the question of what the source code page is. >They either need to tell you or it needs to be provided as part of the >protocol. > Nor does it answer the question of how to handle the error that should be reported on encountering a CCSID 819 character not present in 285.
If the user is in UK, it's likely to be ISO-8859-15 (CCSID 923) rather than 819. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
