On Wednesday, 02/01/2006 at 04:06 EST, Neil Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We are running z/VM Version 3 Release 1.0. > > How or where do you force vm tcp-ip to preserve French character accents when a > file is FTPed up from a PC to VM ? Is there a translation table somewhere ? Or > is it based on the filetextension of the PC file? > > The problem is that when we ftp a file from Windows using WS_FTP-PRO the French > accents are being dropped or translated incorrectly once the file is in CMS. > > An example is ..... é is being translated to i in the CMS file. > > I apologize if this has been asked before.
This was indeed discussed extensively recently. The answer is to specify the correct translation table on the FTP. See the TRANSLATE option if using the VM FTP client. See "site xlate" if using the VM FTP server. Windows is code page 1252, so translation table selection is xxxx1252, where xxxx depends on what version of "French" you mean: 0037 = US/Canada (1140 w/Euro), 0297 = France (1147 w/Euro). Essentially, xxxx must be the host code page number you have configured into your 3270 emulator. E.g. FTP .... (TRANSLATE 11471252 Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
