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This support is now available in version 1.1.8.4 dated April 2020.
With the next update, setting the following property in AcsConfig.properties will produce the requested behavior:
com.ibm.iaccess.PC5250Compatibility=allowTransformSpecialCharsOnPaste
See AcsConfig.properties for additional information about com.ibm.iaccess.PC5250Compatibility.
This is planned for our April 2020 update.
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority requirement that is important to be addressed. This affects most every language, and was supported in iAccess for Windows -- therefore, it should be supported in ACS.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
IBM has received this requirement and is evaluating it. A response will be provided when evaluation is complete.
Doing some additional tests in Unicode environments, I found out that "Enable Unicode Data Stream" is not sufficient neither for them to be displayed, "Enable DBCS in Unicode Fields" should be enabled as well (however the DDS field is defined as CCSID 13488, being UTF-16).
The strange thing is however that only with "Enable DBCS in Unicode Fields" pasting a curly quote in the display shows up as ?, but gets stored correctly in the database ? Seems the emulator knows the character, but is unable to display it without the DBCS option enable (but what as DBCS to do with it ?)