CONVT_CODEPAGE runtime error

[Former Member]

Hi friends,

My program will read a text file that may contains characters such as "é".

May i know is this a non-UTF8 character?

I was using this statement to read the text file :-

OPEN DATASET dsn FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT

However, it failed with this runtime error :-

Runtime Errors	CONVT_CODEPAGE
Exception	CX_SY_CONVERSION_CODEPAGE

At the conversion of a text from codepage '4110' to codepage '4102':

I searched the web for solution.

Some forum posts recommend to use this statement instead :-

OPEN DATASET dsn FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING NON-UNICODE.

If I change to use this statement, may i know will it work well when reading a UTF-8 text file (or normal text file without those special characters such as "é")?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks, gk

[Former Member]

Hi GK,

Well in that case, download the file on presentation server. Then open it in notepad & save it with ENCONDING as UNICODE. Check whether the special character is retained.

Then upload this file to application server & run the program.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[Former Member]

Hi GK,

Try this :-

OPEN DATASET dsn FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[Former Member]

Thanks Prashant.

I tried this method already. Although the program did not give the error dump, but when i checked the downloaded text file, the special character "é" was not downloaded correctly. It appears as "#" instead of "é". Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi GK,

Well in that case, download the file on presentation server. Then open it in notepad & save it with ENCONDING as UNICODE. Check whether the special character is retained.

Then upload this file to application server & run the program.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[Former Member]

Hi Prashant, sorry as i am not clear enough in describing my problem.

My program is used to read a UNIX text file and then download it to the local PC.

The UNIX text file may contains special character such as "é". If i used this statement (OPEN DATASET dsn FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT), it will hit CONVT_CODEPAGE runtime error. If i used this statement (OPEN DATASET dsn FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS.), although it did not hit CONVT_CODEPAGE runtime error, but when i checked the downloaded text file, i found that the special character "é" appears as "#".

I followed your instruction to save the downloaded text file in UNICODE but the special character "é" still appears as "#".

Thanks for your help.

[SuhaSaha]

Hello gk,

Can you please check in SCP(T-Code) which Code Pages(CP) contain the character - é (U+00E9)? If it's possible provide a screenshot as well

I just checked in my system & the character is available in CPs - 4110 & 4102.

"My program is used to read a UNIX text file and then download it to the local PC." - If this is the case you can open the file in BINARY MODE & download it to the local PC as a 'BIN'(ary) file as well. The rationale behind doing this is when a file is read in binary mode, the contents are transferred w/o any conversion.

BR,

Suhas

[Former Member]

Hi Suhas,

Kindly refer to the attached file :-

[Former Member]

Hi Suhas, thanks for your suggestion. I tried BINARY mode but it did not work out correctly. The file appears like below :-

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[SuhaSaha]

Hi,

Where did you view this file? Did you download it to the local PC?

BR,

Suhas

[Former Member]

Yes Suhas, it is a unix file and my program is used to download it to local PC. Thanks.