Re: Encoding conversion problem

Andrea wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a J2EE application which connects to a DB2 configured with code
> set IBM-850. The application works with encoding ISO-8859-1.
> If I save characters outside the range sup****ted by IBM-850 (i.e. the
> euro currency character EURO) then I read garbage...

Yes, the Euro symbol is not part of the encodings, so your database
can't contain it. If you need it, you would have to change the databases
encoding (ISO-8859-15 includes the Euro symbol).

Otherwise, you have to take care not to try to write unsup****ted
character into string/character fields. 

One solution could be to parse all strings and replace the symbol with
the shorthand "EUR", but it might not be acceptable to your client.
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