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podowd · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: Unicode/Double Byte

Hi,
I have written a java adapter that picks up flat files from a source application and places them on an MQ queue in XML format destined for a WBI broker. The broker transforms/routes the message to the destination site. At the destination site I use the same adapter to take the message off the queue and create a flat file from the XML.

The adapter is installed at many sites on several different platforms. The WBI Hub is Sun Solaris.

All works fine when the data transmitted contains the 'standard' common use characters (standard ascii characters I suspect). When data is sent from countries such as Poland and Greece, I am finding the 'unusual' characters in these languages are not output correctly in the flat file at the destination site!

I suspect I need to make the system Unicode compliant, apparently this would enable me to process data from countries such as Poland/Greece and also double byte counteries.

Currently I set the encoding on the XML docs to UTF-8, I suspect I need to do more than this.

I would welcome any advice/suggestions on this, links to other resources/manuals etc. We use the default ccsid for queue managers when we install, would there be any changes required on the MQ network/WBI broker to handle Unicode/double byte?

Thanks,
Pat