UnicodeToEbcdic (Unicode function)

Translate to Ebcdic (Unicode class)

UnicodeToEbcdic converts a Unicode string to EBCDIC. Optionally, untranslatable characters can be represented with XML style hexadecimal character references.

Syntax

%string = unicode:UnicodeToEbcdic[( [CharacterEncode= boolean])] Throws CharacterTranslationException

Syntax terms

%string	A string variable to receive the method object string translated to EBCDIC.
unicode	A Unicode string.
CharacterEncode	The optional (NameRequired) CharacterEncode argument is a Boolean: If its value is False, the default, an exception is thrown if the input contains any Unicode character not translatable to EBCDIC. If its value is True, any Unicode character not translatable to EBCDIC is replaced with the hexadecimal character reference of the character, and the ampersand character is replaced with &. For example, the eight characters “ replace the Unicode left double-quotation mark (“).

Exceptions

This function can throw the following exception:

CharacterTranslationException

If the method encounters a translation problem, properties of the exception object may indicate the location and type of problem.

Usage notes

• Unless the CharacterEncode argument is used, or you want to Catch a CharacterTranslationException, this function is generally not needed, because a Unicode string is implicitly converted to EBCDIC when used in an EBCDIC context. See the example below.
• The intrinsic String method: EbcdicToUnicode converts an EBCDIC string to Unicode.
• The UnicodeToEbcdic function is available as of Sirius Mods Version 7.3.

Examples

The following example shows multiple calls of UnicodeToEbcdic.

%u Unicode Initial('1':U) Print %u:UnicodeToEbcdic %u = '1€2':U Print %u:UnicodeToEbcdic(CharacterEncode=True) Print %u:UnicodeToEbcdic

The result of the above fragment is:

1 1€2 CANCELLING REQUEST: MSIR.0751: Class STRING, function UNICODETOEBCDIC: CHARACTER TRANSLATIONEXCEPTION exception: Unicode character U+0080 without valid translation to EBCDIC at byte position 5 ...

Note: Because of the implicit conversion of Unicode strings (in this case to String), the Print %u:UnicodeToEbcdic statements in the example above could be replaced by Print %u statements and the results would be the same.

See also

Float class String class Unicode class	List of Float methods List of String methods List of Unicode methods List of Intrinsic methods	Float methods syntax String methods syntax Unicode methods syntax
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