Re: CCSID - RPG issues

I guess I was not too clear

Source AND target fields as CCSID(1208)


Gad


>
> date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:06:59 -0500
> from: Barbara Morris <[email protected]>
> subject: Re: CCSID - RPG issues
>
> On 2026-02-26 7:01 a.m., Gad Miron wrote:
> > ...
> > UTF8 Hebrew presents no problem since it translates , in the built-in RPG
> > conversion,
> > to CCSID(424) without issues.
> >
> > The problem lies with Spanish, French, Chinese,Russian, Greek, Arabic
> etc.
> > ...
> In your earlier message, you said that the target of the %SUBST was also
> CCSID(1208).
>
> If you are converting Spanish, French data to CCSID(424), you would risk
> losing data since CCSID(424) does not have all the accented characters
> like ? and ?.
>
> It would be good to add CCSIDCVT(*EXCP) so you get an exception if any
> CCSID conversion fails due characters in the source CCSID that are not
> in the target CCSID.
>
> --
> Barbara
>
>
>
>
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