Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

I have set National Language to 'Western' and Data Language to 'UTF-8' in type tree for input and output objects of a map in WTX 8.3.

Could you please tell me what all languages (like Chinese, German, Japanese etc) in input can be processed fine (with out any character alteration) through the map?

Thanks,
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Originally posted by: vickey

Hi,

UTF-8 character set covers all kinds of languages, ASCII and NON-ASCII Characters.

Along with National Language to 'Western' and Data Language to 'UTF-8' in type tree you have to define the field Min and Max length in Characters rather than in Bytes.

Input file to WTX map should be a UTF-8 encoded file.

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thanks Vicky for your prompt response.
Yes, I did apply CHAR instead of Byte in input and output TypeTrees and input file is UTF-8 encoded.

I believe, UNICODE covers biggest character code set. UTF-16 code set covers bigger set of characters than UTF-8.
However, I do not exactly know which all specific characters or which all languages are covered by UTF-8. e.g, Japanese, German, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Scandinavian etc. Any specific input or authentic link will really help me a lot.

Thanks again.

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi Vickey,

I found some related information in the below link.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.nls/doc/nlsgdrf/codeset_over.htm

I modified element size unit from Byte to Character using a manual method (using textpad macro, typetree maker etc) which might be risky. Could you please advise if there is any way (like propagate) to do it directly in TypeTree editor?

Thanks again.

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Debnarayan
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