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Operating Systems AIX Locales and conversion tables confusion - Some characters don't get translated Post 302503376 by Adamm on Thursday 10th of March 2011 10:37:12 AM
Old 03-10-2011
Locales and conversion tables confusion - Some characters don't get translated

Hello,

my program running on AIX receives a message (from MQ) which is in CCSID 870 (LATIN-2 EBCDIC). It needs to convert it to CCSID 912 (ISO-8859-2). For this conversion, it uses the Websphere MQ functionality, but which, according to the manual, uses AIX's system conversion tables. (Btw - it only works like this on AIX. On Linux or Windows, Websphere MQ uses its own coversion logic, ignoring system conversion tables - and it works there.)

The problem is, that some characters like š,č,ť,ž get translated to chr(26).

My checklist was:
1. The LANG environment variable is set to sk_SK
2. Conversion tables seem to be there
(root):/usr/lib/nls/loc/iconvTable# ls -l
...
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-1250_IBM-5346
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-1282_IBM-5346
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-1284_IBM-5346
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-1285_IBM-5346
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_IBM-1250
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_IBM-1282
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_IBM-1284
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_IBM-1285
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_IBM-852
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_IBM-870
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-5346_ISO8859-2
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-852_IBM-5346
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 IBM-870_IBM-5346
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 288 Aug 12 2010 ISO8859-2_IBM-5346

Can you please help me find out what am I forgeting? Thanx.
 

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