Within DB2/400 you can use Unicode using the "GRAPHIC" and "VARGRAPHIC" data
types using CCSID of 13488 (UCS-2). In addition, as Markus mentions, ICU is
supported on the AS/400. My understanding is that at some point (V5R1 or
V5R2, I think) IBM is planning to ship ICU with the OS. As far as filenames
and scripts, I'm not sure what you can do with these as far as Unicode.
We have been able to run in UCS-2 with our C based product on the AS/400
with the DB2/400 database. We use ICU for a lot of the internal string
functionality.
Bob
Bob Jones
OneWorld Tools Development
JDEdwards
Denver, Colorado
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Scherer [mailto:markus.scherer@jtcsv.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:36 PM
To: unicode
Subject: Re: Unicode support in IBM AS -400
Anil Joshi wrote:
> The exact questions that I am looking for are
> a. Does AS-400 support Unicode if so what kind of support it is. I mean
can
> I have files names in local language. Say file names in Japanese.
As far as I know, OS/400 filenames have been 16-bit Unicode for a number of
years, and some other parts of the OS support Unicode as well.
> b. Does QShell support multilingual scripts I mean can I write a script
that
> can contain Japanese file names.
I don't know - I am not that familiar with OS/400...
Some releases of ICU have been ported to OS/400. ICU 2.0 is being ported
right now.
Please watch this space if you are interested:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/
Best regards,
markus
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