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.Thanks for investigating, Paul.
About DDS, use the A data type with CCSID(1208) to define a UTF-8 field. But note that if you use that file in an RPG program using record-level access, by default, the data will be converted to the job CCSID when you read a record. To avoid this, code DATA(*NOCVT) on the File definition, or code OPENOPT(*NOCVTDATA) in your H spec.
As for XML-Into I did some tests again and...
**FREE
Dcl-DS myDS Qualified;
Name Char(255) CCSID(*UTF8);
End-DS;
XML-Into myDS %XML('/home/mydir/unicode.xml': 'doc=file case=any ccsid=1208 path=person');
*INLR = *On;
Return;
... with an IFS file in CCSID 1208 did work fine now. I could not immediatly find other issues I had in the past but I might be missing some details (do remmber that it also had something to do with switching from UTF-8 to UTF-16 for printing Chinese lables).
Sorry I don't have immediate examples on this anymore.
DDS currently only support CCSID 1200/13488.
IBM has previously requested more clarifying information. Because the additional information was not provided within 30 days, the request has been closed.
.Please give more information about the lack of UTF-8 support in DDS.
Please also give more information about the lack of UTF-8 support for XML-INTO. It's true that you can't specify option "ccsid=utf8", but you can have UTF-8 subfields in your data structure.
Please give more information about the lack of UTF-8 support in DDS.