topic Re: Doubt in code page in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Doubt in code page

Former Member — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:28:31 GMT

Hi Friends,

I have few scenarios , think file is coming from our Partner or Vendor who is using .NET , VB or JAVA. then what can be the possibility ??

How to convert one OS Code Page to Another OS Code Page . Can we build a scenario for this like we are using Windows NT and our Vendor System is using Unix OS then what are the conversions needed ? Think of different scenarios , When Product is built what are the different scenarios we need to consider.

Please send me the Scenarios..

vikram25383@yahoo.com

Thank you..

Re: Doubt in code page

vincentlim826 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:44:57 GMT

I don't know what scenario you want, but you can think of using RFC (Remote Function Call) for unicode <=> non-unicode / codepage conversion

cheers,

Vincent

Re: Doubt in code page

markus_doehr2 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:47:52 GMT

One has to look at the 3rd party application itself.

- Java uses Unicode only - so if your backend is Unicode, it's no problem

- VB/.NET - it depends if the vendor of the 3rd party application is aware and if those programs are written to support that. If the developers assume, that they are always talking to a Latin-1 system, there can be problems if you transfer/read/write data, that is non-Latin-1 (or 7-bit ASCII).

We have had several applications that needed to be upgrade before our conversion:

- connected Fax servers (their RFC library was too old)

- an automatic stock system (same as above)

- EDI converter (new version needed to be installed/upgraded)

- Office 2000 --> Office 2003 (couldn't deal correctly with double byte data combined with Latin-1 or Latin-5)

- other filesystem based interfaces (we had to modify the programs so that they write Latin-1 instead of an UTF-8 textfile - means OPEN DATASET FOR OUTPUT IN LEGACY TEXT MODE.... )

It really depends on the way the 3rd party application interacts with the system.

Markus