Good luck! Depending on a user to remember to do something special is fraught with hazards. But ya gots to do what ya gots to do. :-)
>________________________________ > From: "Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:05 PM >Subject: Re: removing nulls from a file > >The first two bytes are 'FF FE'. I tried saving it with UTF-8 and it removed >all the nulls and looks correct now. Now just need to talk to the client to >do this when they save the file. > >Thanks for all the help. > >Brad Wissink >Information Technology Services >Iowa State University >515-294-3088 > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >zMan >Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:48 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: removing nulls from a file > >On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> >wrote: >> I agree, it looks like the original file is encoded in small-endian UTF-16. >> If the file is generated on a Windows system and there's no way to change >> the creating software to use UTF-8 or an ASCII code page (I'm betting there >> is, if one looks hard enough) you can probably use Windows Notepad to >> convert it. Just open it in Notepad, so a "Save As" and change the Encoding >> from Unicode (which is UTF-16) to ANSI. >> >> But in the end, it really should be up to the system that creates the file >> to have an ANSI/ASCII option... > >I've seen this a lot from Microsoft stuff -- export a Registry key, for >example, and look at it on Windows and you'll see this. I suspect the encoding >is the right answer. >-- >zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to >[email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
