Hi,
As a part of Unicode conversion project activities, we have changed
about 300 programs dealing with the uploading and downloading of the
files on the application server. The changes applied into these
programs are mainly with the "OPEN DATASET" syntax. Below is the new
Unicode compatible syntax added by the development team:
OPEN DATASET <outfile> FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING UTF-8 IGNORING
CONVERSION ERRORS.
(Please note that the encoding is hard coded as UTF-8)
The issue is that even though we are forcing the encoding to be
UTF-8, the format of the output file is not consistent. We are getting
two different formats i.e. Unicode UTF-8 and Western European ISO-8859,
depending whether Unicode characters like (Euro symbol), special
characters are present in the file data.
Per our observation, the file format is Western European if the data
contains only A to Z (characters) and/or 0 to 9 (numbers) & the file
format is UTF-8 for anything other than A to Z and 0 to 9.
Thanks.
Marco
Bluesky
