On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 at 18:09, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 20:14:54 +0000, Robert Prins wrote: > > >On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 at 15:27, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> ... > >> Are all your data in all your data sets UTF8 or is there a mixture of > >> CCSIDs? > >> > >The data comes from a white box via FTP (or IND$FILE) and as such the > >original valid UTF-8 is translated using whatever translate table is used > ... > FTP lets you control that with SBDATACONN: > < > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=protocol-sbdataconn-ftp-client-server-statement > > > > Does IND$FILE even document what it does? > No, but is that necessary? I've zapped it to use SDB (thanks to the late GSF) and it would be equally easy(ish) to zap the translate table it uses to make them equivalent to those use by FTP. > > Transfer the UTF-8 file again in BINARY. > No, because the data is in ASCII, except for the locations > > >by either, but the program uses data embedded in the original white box > >file to actually build the first FB(121) record, which looks like > > > > | B | Brussel (Metro Delta) | > > | D | Raststätte Gütersloh Süd | > > | F | Calais | > > | GB | Brentwood M25 (W) | > > | L | Aire de Capellen Nord | > > | LT | A13 exit Palanga (K) | > > | LV | exit LiepÄ ja (Bus Dienvida robeža) | > > | NL | VZP De Kroon | > > | PL | MOP Sosna | > > > That's implausible. Are the "¼" silent? > They're the codepage-437/850 representation of "Raststätte Gütersloh Süd" and "exit Liepāja (Bus Dienvida robeža)". How many times has it already been stepped on? > > Start over; use BINARY. > Already told you, the file is ASCII with just locations in UTF-8. > > Your email headers include: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > That's reasonable. It was probably corrupted upstream. > No, it's transferred correctly, I cut the text from my non-UTF-8 aware editor. I hate EBCDIC, > Yes, we know Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html> Some REXX code for use on z/OS <https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
