Within DB2/400 you can use Unicode using the "GRAPHIC" and "VARGRAPHIC" data types using CCSID of 13488 (UCS-2). In addition, as Markus mentions, ICU is supported on the AS/400. My understanding is that at some point (V5R1 or V5R2, I think) IBM is planning to ship ICU with the OS. As far as filenames and scripts, I'm not sure what you can do with these as far as Unicode.
We have been able to run in UCS-2 with our C based product on the AS/400 with the DB2/400 database. We use ICU for a lot of the internal string functionality. Bob Bob Jones OneWorld Tools Development JDEdwards Denver, Colorado -----Original Message----- From: Markus Scherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:36 PM To: unicode Subject: Re: Unicode support in IBM AS -400 Anil Joshi wrote: > The exact questions that I am looking for are > a. Does AS-400 support Unicode if so what kind of support it is. I mean can > I have files names in local language. Say file names in Japanese. As far as I know, OS/400 filenames have been 16-bit Unicode for a number of years, and some other parts of the OS support Unicode as well. > b. Does QShell support multilingual scripts I mean can I write a script that > can contain Japanese file names. I don't know - I am not that familiar with OS/400... Some releases of ICU have been ported to OS/400. ICU 2.0 is being ported right now. Please watch this space if you are interested: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/ Best regards, markus
