AS/400 Character list

[Guest.Visitor]

Can anyone point me in the direction of where I could find all of the characters that the AS/400 supports? Just a list or something like that. Thanks, Aaron Bartell

[Guest.Visitor]

Judging from the responses on this board, it's more like how many characters support the AS/400. -bret

[R.Daugherty]

Bret wrote: "Judging from the responses on this board, it's more like how many characters support the AS/400. " How many characters does the AS/400 support? Why did I think of you when he asked that question, Bret? and myself.... but I was trying to be good... Ralph

[Guest.Visitor]

Are you talking english only? Or all languages?

[Guest.Visitor]

Just english characters.

[Guest.Visitor]

It depends on a lot of things, like whether you're viewing them on a greenscreen or printing them to an ASCII printer or EBCDIC printer. Basically, everything above 0x40 (space) is a "printable" character, though 0x41 and another one appear blank. Here's a list I cut and pasted from my screen to here (with who knows what translations): âäàáãåçñ¢.<(+|&éêëèíîïìß!$*);¬ -/ÂÄÀÁÃÅÇѦ,%_>?øÉÊËÈÍÎÏÌ`: #@'="Øabcdefghi«»ðýþ±°jklmnopqrªºæ¸Æ¤µ~stuvwxyz¡¿ÐÝÞ®^£ ¥·©§¶¼½¾¯¨´× {ABCDEFGHI*ôöòóõ}JKLMNOPQR¹ûüùúÿ÷STUVWXYZ²ÔÖÒÓÕ012 3456789³ÛÜÙÚ Here's a chart, though you'll have to copy it into a monospace font. I can't find and don't remember how to post things here in a formatted manner. Something to do with brackets.... 0123456789ABCDEF 2nd hex nibble 4 *âäàáãåçñ¢.<(+| 5 &éêëèíîïìß!$*);¬ 6 -/ÂÄÀÁÃÅÇѦ,%_>? 7 øÉÊËÈÍÎÏÌ`:#@'=" 1st hex nibble 8 Øabcdefghi«»ðýþ± 9 °jklmnopqrªºæ¸Æ¤ A µ~stuvwxyz¡¿ÐÝÞ® B ^£¥·©§¶¼½¾¯¨´× C {ABCDEFGHI*ôöòóõ D }JKLMNOPQR¹ûüùúÿ E ÷STUVWXYZ²ÔÖÒÓÕ F 0123456789³ÛÜÙÚ For example, the Yen symbol ¥ is 0xB2. I've left out 0x00 thru 0x3F because they're unprintable control codes.

[Guest.Visitor]

As far as I know, everything in the *ISO code pages plus Double-Byte characters including many pictographic sets. bobh

[Guest.Visitor]

The International Application Development manual has an appendix which shows many of the single bytes code pages supported by OS/400. As another reply indicates you are interested in the English (Latin 1) characters you should just take a look at Code Page/CCSID 37.

[Guest.Visitor]

How do I display a CCSID? Since I am not at work I can't try DSPCCSID like I was going to;-) Aaron Bartell

[Guest.Visitor]

If you're on the web, go to publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/online.htm and you can get to the various online AS/400 pubs. From the above site select the language you want to work in; select V4R5; search all; search on International; select the International Application Development manual; page down to appendix F: Code Pages and then select Code Page 00037. This will show you the characters found in Code Page/CCSID 37. Indirectly this will also show you how to find the other publications available to you.