Re: FTPAPI - char set conversions, status report

[Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>]

Sender: Christian <chrisv5@xxxxxx>

Well, after I finally found the V5R4 docs with regard to CCSIDs (which 
are vastly improved over V5R2), I think I got the knack of it.

I managed to successfully convert a Chinese text file as follows:
GB1235 -> UTF-8 -> EBCDIC -> UCS2 BE. Surprisingly, it still looked the 
same after I was through.

What puzzles me a bit, though, is the fact that the conversion process 
fails when using small input/output buffers. I might investigate into 
that later (even write a Windows program to the same conversions; or 
maybe find something which will do that), but for now I'll leave it as 
it is. Will wrap up the copy file tool (still a few functions missing, 
e.g. setting the file's CCSID, better error reporting) and publish it.

It's roughly written in a way that will enable me to quite easily plug 
it into FTPAPI (after some required structure changes; after all, 
read/write is asynchronous), thus I might deliver a working 
multinational version of FTPAPI soon after I get the "final" V4R5 
version from Scott.

Regards,
Christian

Jon Paris wrote:
> Sender: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Christian,
>
> Have you contacted Bruce Vining of IBM about this?  He's usually very
> helpful in getting things like this addressed or (often in my case) pointing
> out that my interpretation of the docs was slightly flawed <grin>).
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
> www.Partner400.com 
>
>
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