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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories System Management
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2025

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Download spool file as text UTF-16 from IBM Navigator for i

In old client access, through navigator (desktop application), we could download spool file as UTF-16.

But, In the new IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), through IBM Navigator for i, the spool file downloaded as UTF-8.

Please, support, to download spool file as text utf-16 from IBM Navigator for i.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Feb 26, 2026
    Thanks for your input. IBM will use this Idea as input to planning, but no commitment is made or implied. This Idea will be updated in the future if IBM implements it. IBM will use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this Idea.
    IBM Power Systems Development
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  • Guest
    Dec 16, 2025

    The IT industry has moved to UTF-8 as the de facto standard encoding, probably due to the ASCII compatibility and storage requirements. UTF-8 covers the same character set as UTF-16 and UTF-32 - the only drawback being the variable-width encoding.

    However, you can convert the UTF-8 file into UTF-16 using Unix/Linux tools like iconv. In Windows WSL, CygWin, Linux, Mac and IBM i you would code the following:

    iconv -f UTF8 -t UTF16 < downloaded_file.txt > downloaded_file_utf16.txt

    HTH.

    Christian Jorgensen, CEAC member

    1 reply

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