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Correct use of CBL_STRING_CONVERT routine

  • October 1, 2016
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Hi,

please I need to convert file from UTF8 to Windows 1251 code page?

Can be used routine CBL_STRING_CONVERT here? And if it's so, how is proper call?

I still got status-code value '3' - unsupported conversion


#COBOL

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Chris Glazier
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Hi,

please I need to convert file from UTF8 to Windows 1251 code page?

Can be used routine CBL_STRING_CONVERT here? And if it's so, how is proper call?

I still got status-code value '3' - unsupported conversion


#COBOL

Hi,

CBL_STRING_CONVERT is used to convert between Unicode characters and ASCII/EBCDIC and isn't an all purpose code page conversion function.

There are methods to do this in .NET using Visual COBOL but if you are using a Net Express native application I am not sure if there is an automated way of doing this conversion. You might have to code this yourself by looking up the equivalent characters in a table.

Is this something you need to do one time for a migration or is this an on-going process that you need to support going forward?

How are you getting the UTF-8 characters into the program and are they all single byte UTF-8 characters?

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