Re: question about none english character when using HTTPAPI

[Thomas Raddatz <thomas.raddatz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johan,

I do not know whether I will be able to solve your CCSID problem entirely 
or not. I am also not sure that the following explanation explains the ? 
character(s) at the receiving side. Nevertheless, please answer the 
following questions:

1) Are the non-english characters hard coded literals such as 'Hello World'?

2) If the non-english characters are literals, what is the CCSID of your 
source physical file?

3) Are the non-englich characters read from a file?

4) If the non-english characters are read from a file, what is the CCSID of 
the file.

5) What is the CCSID of your job?


There are several potential reasons for the problem:

a) If your job CCSID is 65535 (=*HEX) and the characters are read from a 
file, no CCSID conversion (file to job) takes place. But HTTP API converts 
the data from the job CCSID to 1208 with HTTP_setCCSIDs(1208 :0).

b) If the CCSID of your source physical file does not match the CCSID of 
your job (parameter CCSID or default CCSID for CCSID=65535) the literals in 
your program do not have the same CCSID of your job and hence HTTP API 
cannot correctly translate the request message with HTTP_setCCSIDs(1208 :0).

Example:
I wrote a module with CCSID 37 that uses iconv() to translate the '@' 
character to CCSID 1208. It then writes the UTF-8 data to a file in binary 
mode. When I run the job with CCSID 37 everything works like a charm. But 
when I change the job CCSID to 273 (German) the '@' sign is converted to '§'.

Regards,

Thomas




Johan Wigh schrieb:
>    Hi!
> 
>    Im testing to use HTTPAPI for sending Soap messages to internal
>    webservice att our business!
> 
>    But when im consuming a webservice and sendning "non english"
>    character i get "??" on the receiving side
> 
>    I have tried to set the CCSID to UTF-8
>    HTTP_setCCSIDs(1208 :0); i get ??
>    HTTP_setCCSID(1252:0)    i get ?
> 
>    The webservice im using is based in a windows enviroment and is
>    supposed to use UTF-8
> 
> 
> 
>    When Im consuming another webservices that and receiving none english
>    characters it works fine and it recieves the non english characters
>    ok! with and without HTTP_setCCSID!
> 
>    I found some topics around but i still cant figure out what he problem
>    can be
>    /Johan from Sweden
> 
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