sourav mazumder wrote:
Need an urgent help regarding UTF-8 data conversion in
IBM Mainframe 390.
I have a data file in Windows system which contains
Japanese characters encoded using UTF-8. I need to
send this file to IBM Mainframe 390, where an
application will read this data.
In this context I need to know the following
information -
1. What is the encoding scheme is generally used in
IBM Mainframe 390 for Japanese language ? I'm aware of
IBM EUC. But this is not working.
EUC means Extended Unix Code. Mainframes traditionally use EBCDIC-based charsets instead. There are
about 10 CCSIDs for Japanese EBCDIC, like 930, 939, 1390, 1399, etc. You need to figure out which
CCSID is used.
2. Is there any API(s) available in Windows platform
(2000) using which I can use to convert the UTF-8 data
to the encoding scheme supported by IBM Mainframe 390
for Japanese ?
Possible. Once you know which IBM CCSID you need you can check Microsoft documentation on the subject.
You could also use ICU to convert UTF-8 -> UTF-16 -> CCSID 930 or whichever
See http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/
3. Does Java has any equivalent encoding scheme which
can use to convert the UTF-8 data to the encoding
scheme supported by IBM Mainframe 390 for Japanese ?
It supports some of them. Java tends to prepend "Cp" to IBM CCSIDs to form charset names.
Best regards,
markus
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