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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 20, 2019

ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2 (13448) only, please include support surrogates (more than 2 byets over 2xxxx)

According to our development ACS Emulator support for Unicode is UCS-2
(13488) only, that is Basic Multilingual Plan (BMP), and does NOT include
support for surrogates.

Both UCS-2 (13488) and UTF-16 (1200) are composed of 2 bytes only.
So 2XXXX is not supported because it is more than 2 bytes.

But currently, we can use Big-5 and saved in DB2
As win 10 supports Unicode Input method only (no more Big-5 input method), we cannot input the some chineses char (the one more than 2 bytes) any more
Example


Use Case:

char in problem (unicode contains more than 2 bytes)
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%F0%A1%A2%84

Char is fine (unicode contains 2 bytes only)
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E9%82%A6


Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Apr 9, 2019

    Thank you for submitting your Request For Enhancement. After evaluating your submission, the decision at this time is to not provide this support.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Mar 13, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - IBM i Access Family
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Core OS
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None