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charlieb
PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 7:51 am    Post subject: Unwanted UTF-8 encoding characters in MQSI message body. Reply with quote

Newbie

Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Posts: 2
Location: Hemel Hempstead
We have two Sun Platforms running MQSI Brokers.

On one platform we see that when we CAST an input message BLOB to CHARACTER (where the CCSID of the message is 819) we get the ASCII equivalent of the BLOB.

On the other platform we see that our ASCII characters have additional UTF-8 characters inserted where the ASCII character value is above 0x7F (as per the UTF-8 standard).

As example would be and input message:

0xa33530

on one system the CHARACTER cast give us...

"£50"

But on the other system we get...

"£50"

Note we see that the "Local" (region) settings on the sun platforms differ, and infact on the platform where the unwanted UTF-8 encoding is being applied the platform is complaining -> "couldn't set locale correctly".

Note although I do not realy understand these SunOS settings our errant UTF-8 machine has the following.

TZ=GB
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.ISO8859-15
LC_TIME=en_GB.ISO8859-15

and our other machine.

TZ=GB
CMASK=22
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGE=C
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1

Note we are based in the UK (GB).
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vmcgloin
PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Knight

Joined: 04 Apr 2002
Posts: 560
Location: Scotland
Charlie,
Did you get any solution to this? We have the same problem.
Cheers,
Vicky
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charlieb
PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Newbie

Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Posts: 2
Location: Hemel Hempstead
The problem occurs on the Production machine (GB local), but does not on the UAT machine (US local). We are not allowed to touch either at the moment, although the Production machine will be retired soon.

We did notice that the Production machne has the environment variable

LANG=en_US

Operations changed this to en_GB and we are no longer getting our "couldn't set locale correctly" message any more. We of course do not know if we have still have the UTF-8 problem.

Hope this helps.
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