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Created on Dec 1, 2016

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Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale Settings for AIX 7.x

Please note: A similar request has been already filed to the TXSERIES Group in August 2016 (RFE 92875).
On 30th of November 2016 we have been informed, that this RFE needs to be addressed to the AIX Group and can not being forwarded by IBM internally.
We really would appreciate an answer in a timely manner now.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 7, 2017

    As stated in our previous answer from January 2017
    we need the possibility to enable IBM-858 locale on AIX: en_US.IBM-858

    We expect the command "local charmap" to somehow output "IBM-858"
    (or however it has been named by IBM)

    It should be possible to set LANG/LC_CTYPE to "en_US.IBM-858"
    and the locale should be installable via the command "smitty".

    I assume ;) our answer to your question

    "do you agree to narrow this RFE to "need en_US.IBM-858 locale in AIX"?"
    is "Yes".

    Because we never wished something else we are currently a bit confused about the fact
    to narrow down the requirements to something what we think represents our initial request?
    (so we have the slight apprehension of an misunderstanding with uncertain outcome)

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 12, 2017

    Fragen von IBM im RFE waren:
    ---- Questions:
    Comments:
    Added: The RFE mentioned that "Codepage 850/858 for the database has been choosen to preserve certain characters needed by customer (the single character representations of 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/3) To minimize characters being lost to roundtrip translation and to enable editing of CP858 encoded files on AIX without loosing characters CSID 850/858 on AIX 7.x is needed."

    It will be helpful if the original RFE requestor can confirm following questions.
    1. Did the customer only request to add three characters, 1/2 [U+00BD] , 1/4 [U+00BC], 1/3 [U+0253], to CCSID 858 codeset? Currently, AIX IBM-858.ucmap includes 1/2 [U+00BD] , 1/4 [U+00BC], but does not include 1/3 [U+0253].
    2. Did the customer also asked to enable IBM-858 locale (such as en_US.IBM-858)? If the answer is "YES", please list the requested locales.

    Unsere Antwort diesbezüglich, die im RFE hinterlegt werden soll.
    ---- Answers:
    Answer to question 1.)
    This is somehow an interesting question ;)

    The request includes the support of ALL characters used in codepage IBM-858.
    (please refer to ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00858.pdf)

    Therefore this includes ALL characters
    called "VULGAR FRACTION" included in IBM-858.

    Those characters are:

    VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF [U+00BD]
    VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER [U+00BC]
    VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS [U+00BE]

    The character [U+0253] seems not to be the character "1/3" - it seems to be "LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH HOOK".
    In addition 1/3 is NOT part of IBM-858 and therefore not requested by us!
    Maybe you confused [U+0253] with [U+2153]
    (which is 1/3 in Unicode - but as mentioned before not part of IBM-858).

    Answer to question 2.)
    Yes, the request includes to enable IBM-858 locale:
    en_US.IBM-858

    We expect the command "local charmap" to somehow output "IBM-858"
    (or however it has been named by IBM)

    It should be possible to set LANG/LC_CTYPE to "en_US.IBM-858"
    and the locale should be installable via the command "smitty".

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