On 11/20/2012 11:04 AM, Bob Cronin wrote:
> I used to have my own Rexx code to
> translate utf8 to utf16, but dropped that in favor of the "undocumented"
> utf stage the Piper was so kind to provide. So basically you just need to
> convert utf8 to utf16 and then use the Unicode to EBCDIC table appropriate
> to your situation.

I think by "ASCII UTF-8" he really means UTF-8 encoded 8-bit Latin-1
(ISO 8859-1), so VCHAR should fill in the missing step by skipping over
the extra 8 0-bits.  From EBCDIC to UTF-8:

  ... | utf from utf-8 to utf-16 | vchar 16 8 | xlate a2e | ...

>From UTF-8 to EBCDIC:

  ... | xlate e2a | vchar 8 16 | utf from utf-16 to utf-8 | ...

¬R

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