What is the perfect solution for having mixed environment (Latin1 & Latin2) of CCSID in the same database on IBM i? The database should hold US characters, Danish characters and Polish characters in the same physical file. Some records must even contain mixed special characters for all languages at the same time. To me UTF8 seems to be the perfect solution but we have a big issue when it comes to 5250 ? 5250 does not support UTF8. However, 5250 supports DBCS and this seemed to be a good solution because it is possible to convert UTF8 <=> DBCS on the fly. Unfortunately we have realized that DBCS always seems to occupy double data on the screen. This means that subsequently fields to disappear from the screen. As far as I know DBCS was original made to please Japanese environment where the users should be able to use a special key sequence (shift in and shift out) when typing Katakana.
My question: do any of you know a way to only occupy the defined amount numbers of bytes in a DBCS field?
My question: do any of you know a way to only occupy the defined amount numbers of bytes in a DBCS field?
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