Re: FTPAPI Code Page Question

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Francis,

In it's current state, FTPAPI only supports single-byte character sets. 
  So you can't use it to translate to UTF-8 (CCSID 1208) since that's a 
mixed-byte CCSID.

To achieve the results you're looking for, you'll need to modify 
FTPAPI's method of translating data...  if you do so, please contribute 
your changes back to the project.

Another approach might be to work around the problem.  If you want to do 
that, my suggestion is to use CPYTOSTMF to convert it to a (temporary) 
IFS stream field that's in UTF-8, then send that stream file with FTPAPI 
in binary mode.


Francis Lapeyre wrote:
>    I'm tranferring a physical file (a flat one) to a MS SQL Server 2005
>    application. It expects the file to be in Unicode, but it's appearing
>    over there as ASCII, and that doesn't work.
> 
> 
> 
>    What do I need to do? A quick Google seems to indicate that CCSID 1208
>    is Unicode; I tried this in my program:
> 
> 
> 
>    // Switch to ASCII mode.
> 
>    If Ftp_Binarymode(File_Id : *OFF) < 0;
>      P_Error = 'Cannot switch to ASCII mode. Check FTP Server.';
>      Exsr End_Program;
> 
>    Endif;
> 
> 
> 
>    // Files must be in Unicode CCSID (1208).
> 
>    If Ftp_Codepage(File_Id : 1208 : 37) < 0;
>      P_Error = 'Cannot translate files to Unicode. Check FTP Server.';
>      Exsr End_Program;
> 
>    Endif;
> 
> 
> 
>    That did not work. On the desination server, if you open the file in
>    Notepad, File, Save as, the type is showing up as ANSI.
> 
> 
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