Re: Non english characters and http_url_get

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hello Matthias,

I have to admit that I'm a little confused by your example URL.  That 
URL points to a web page that's heavy on JavaScript and HTML.  I'm 
having a hard time conceiving of how that page would be useful in 
HTTPAPI...  it seems like that'd only be useful from a web browser.

I've tried the URL, and no matter how I try, I can't get the words 
"Unter Führung" (either spelled correctly or incorrectly) to come up in 
the URL.  It appears that I'd have to write a JavaScript parser to get 
those words

Having said that... your example shows one correct character being 
replaced with two invalid ones.  In my experience, that means that 
you're trying to view a UTF-8 encoded document as if it's ASCII -- or 
you're telling the system to translate it from ASCII to EBCDIC -- and 
since it's not ASCII, but UTF-8, you have problems.

With HTTPAPI and http_url_get(), the solution is to tell HTTPAPI that to 
mark the file you're downloading as UTF-8 (CCSID 1208) instead of the 
default of ISO-8859-1 (a flavor of ASCII, CCSID 819).

To do that, put this code before your http_url_get():

             callp     HTTP_SetFileCCSID(1208)

If the document isn't UTF-8, but is something else, then you need to 
supply the correct CCSID for whatever it is.  HTTPAPI doesn't know what 
the document is, so if you don't tell it otherwise, it'll default to 
CCSID 819.


Matthias Schatte wrote:
>    Hello,
>    i have to download a html site with special german characters. I use
>    the procedure http_url_get
>    .
>    For example: [1]http://www.heise.de/pda/newsticker/m105633.html
>    "Unter Führung" <- this is right.
>    With http_url_get i get "Unter Führung"
>    What can i change in my RPG program?
>    --
>    Matthias
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.heise.de/pda/newsticker/m105633.html
> 
> 
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