Re: Unicode problem

["John Clark\(Hotmail\)" <jaclark40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

Regarding whether or not it's UTF-8, the only reason I thought it was that 
is because the person that generated the file told me it was that.  I have 
no other proof that it's UTF-8.  I also know that when I used CCSID 1208, 
the file parsed correctly.

Do you know what the CCSID is for UTF-16 (LE).  If so, I can try it.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Klement" <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects" <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: Unicode problem


> Answering my own question, I guess.
>
> I noticed that the QlgTransformUCSData() API lets you transfer between
> various flavors of Unicode. I could code a routine that translates
> UTF-16LE (with or without BOM) to UTF-16, then use the standard iconv()
> to convert it to UTF-8.
>
> While I'm at it, I could support UTF-32 and UTF-32LE.
>
> Sounds like fun.
>
>
> Scott Klement wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>>> The first 2 BOM bytes clearly indicate UTF-16 (LE) because they match 
>>> the
>>> UTF-16 (LE) signature given at:
>>
>> Yes, I agree.  I wrote a program (long time ago) that detects the
>> encoding of an XML document, and it came to the same conclusion that you
>> did...  UTF-16LE.
>>
>> And Expat understood and read/parsed that encoding without any problems
>> on my box.  So I don't know why the OP had problems?
>>
>> But for certain, it's not UTF-8, and the OP's assertion that he "fixed"
>> the problem by using CCSID 1208 doesn't make sense.  It's absolutely not
>> UTF-8.
>>
>> Do you know if IBM i has a CCSID for UTF-16LE?  Searching around I found
>> a page that says CCSID 1202 is UTF-16le, but that CCSID doesn't appear
>> to be supported on i.   (Fortunately, Expat doesn't use the IBM i text
>> conversion routines, it has it's own.)
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