On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, sourav mazumder wrote: > Need an urgent help regarding UTF-8 data conversion in > IBM Mainframe 390.
> 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. I guess it uses IBM code page 0300(IBM Japanese DBCS-Host encoding), EBCDIC-based modal encoding. (ref. Ken Lunde, CJKV Information Processing, p.583, p. 607, p.623). According to him, it's not possible to map IBM Japanese EUC and IBM Japanese PC(almost identical to Shift_JIS) to/from IBM Japanese DBCS-Host encoding(code page 0300) algorithmically. (the mapping table is necessary.). <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/IBM/> has the following in README.TXT file: -------- IBM has many conversion tables to Unicode available in a binary (machine readable) format on a CD-ROM included with the document SC09-2190-00 'CDRA Reference and Registry'. IBM has also defined new code pages which contain the Euro Sign. For further information, please contact the IBM National Language Technical Centre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). --------- > 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 ? I doubted WideCharToMultiByte API (since you have your data in UTF-8, it should be easy to convert it to 'WideChar' - UTF-16 in Windows-) supports IBM code page 0300, until googling 'IBM codepage 300 WideCharToMultiByte' turned up the following page: http://www.sharmahd.com/tm/codepages.html This page should save your day, I think. > 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 ? I looked up the Java I18N API reference. Unfortunately, IBM Japanese (EBCDIC-based) code page 0300 is not listed among supported encodings. Bruno Haible's libiconv(ported to Windows as well) doesn't, either. ICU may support it, but somehow I couldn't find the list of codepages/encodings supported by ICU's UConvert API. If ICU supports it, you'll hear from Markus Scherer very soon (if not already). Jungshik
