Re: Ftpapi and Thai Language support

[Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>]

Sender: Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>

Hello Jiguang,

how's Singapore? Hot and humid as always? Have they finally rebuilt 
Merlion Park or is it still a construction site? ;-)

The IFS CCSID attribute does not get used for a PUT by FTPAPI at all. 
You are right, 1252 would be wrong, if it contains Thai chararcters.

What you have to do are the following steps:

- ensure you send the file in ASCII mode, because the receiver uses Unix
  rc = ftp_binarymode(SessID: *OFF);

- set the appropriate code pages for your file and the receiver's file;
  rc = ftp_codepage(SessID: cpRemote: cpLocal);

  NOTE: you *must* do that, even if they are identical, otherwise some
        default translation from EBCDIC to US ASCII happens, which will
        not please you

where:
  SessID   ... placeholder for your FTP API session ID
  cpLocal  ... the "real" code page of your IFS file
  cpRemote ... the expected code page of the receiver


You might get away by sending the file as binary, if the following 
conditions are met:

- no code page conversion required
- the file contains no CRLF (seems like it is an EDIFACT file)

Another note: if you do any DIR or LIST *after* the ftp_codepage, you 
are out of luck, unless you applied my patch which I have posted about a 
 week ago

Cheers,
Christian

jg_xue@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sender: jg_xue@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi there,
>
> My EDI application using FTPAPI has been working for some time with pure
> English characters.
>
> Recently, I need to send some IFS files including Thai Characters to our
> customer who is using Unix system
>
> My IFS file's attribute is:
>
>                                   Display Attributes
>
> Object . . . . . . :   /cmtedi/outbox/data/SM200605221411.TXT
>
> Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   STMF
>
> Owner  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   QPGMR
> System object is on  . . . . . . . . . :   Local
> Auxiliary storage pool . . . . . . . . :   1
>   Object overflowed  . . . . . . . . . :   No
>
> Coded character set ID . . . . . . . . :   1252
> Hidden file  . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   No
> PC system file . . . . . . . . . . . . :   No
> Read only  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   No
>
> Need to archive (PC) . . . . . . . . . :   Yes
> Need to archive (OS/400) . . . . . . . :   Yes
>
>
> The file shows in i5/OS environment without any problem, however when
> sending it to Unix, the Thai character could not be translated correctly.
>
> I tried to change the IFS's attribute to CCSID 838, and  when doing FTP,
> and manage to use LTYPE C 874, it does not work as well.
>
> Anybody can help?
>
> Regards,
> Xue Jiguang
>
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