Subject: Re: [xsl] Representing EBCDIC code 37 in xslt From: a kusa <akusa8@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:59:04 -0600 |
Thanks Ivan. That is where this question started, what output encoding can I use to preserve these EBCDIC characters? On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> a kusa <akusa8@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [] > > > Well, I have <xsl:output encoding> set to utf-8 right now. If I set > > it to EBCDIC, then the rest of the content in the XML converts to > > gibberish. > > Which is expected, if you view an EBCDIC-encoded XML file with > an application that assumes ASCII-based encoding. Try to upload > the resulting file using FTP /binary/ mode to the mainframe and > check if the file is still unreadable /there./ > > (Alternatively, or perhaps complementarily, use an > EBCDIC-capable application to view the resulting file locally.) > > > Thats what I meant. > > > I only need the special characters -esp. Latin-1 characters like the > > plusminus sign, to convert to the right EBCDIC code. > > > I have a java program that FTPs the file; I believe the default is > > ASCII. > > There /may/ be a problem if /either/ this program or the FTP > server assume that the input is ASCII, because the characters > such as PLUS-MINUS SIGN are /not/ representable in ASCII. > > One solution is to configure either the FTP client or FTP server > to /correctly/ convert UTF-8 to EBCDIC. The other is to > configure the XSLT implementation (with <xsl:output />) to > output EBCDIC, and send the result to the target host /without/ > any encoding conversion (i. e., using FTP binary mode.) > > -- > FSF associate member #7257
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