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Hi All,
I'm having great trouble with some arabic processing I'm trying to do. I am pulling data from an iSeries via JDBC (IBM Toolbox for Java driver). The iSeries CCSID is 420. I'm getting this as a byte array from the resultset and generating a java string:
byte[] binData = rs.getBytes(4);
String strJavaString = new String(binData, "Cp420");so far, so good. I now want to convert back to another charset and write this to a local file.
i.e.
byte[] binOutput = strJavaString .getBytes("UTF8");
buffoutstream.write(binOutput);writing UTF8 is fine, the output text is correct. Using 1256 on Windows is also fine.
BUT, if I try to convert the java string to ISO8859-6 (ISO Arabic) then it doesn't work:
byte[] binUTF8 = strUnicode.getBytes("ISO8859_6");Most of the characters are not translated to valid 8859-6 arabic characters. I know this by looking at the byte values produced and the fact that it doesn't display correctly on my arabised system.
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong, or if there are definite issues with ISO8859-6?
I'm developing in WSAD (IBM JRE 1.3) on windows XP.
Hope someone can help.
- Adam

Can you give some examples of Arabic characters from 420 that won't convert to 8859-6 or 1256 that you think should do so?
8859-6 and Windows 1256 are overall not very much alike. They are alike in terms of the Arabic characters themselves, but 1256 has a lot of other characters that won't convert into 8859-6. Are you sure you are looking at conversions of Arabic characters? For example, 1256 and 8856-6 are the same from 0xC1 - 0xD6, but not at all the same from 0xAE to 0xBE.
Another issue that may be tripping you up: code page 420 has a lot of initial, medial, and final form characters in it. Windows 1256 and ISO 8859-6 do not have such characters. 420 is from the era where you didn't have a nice Arabic layout subsystem drawing text on your workstation screen. To convert between 420 and 1256/8859-6 you actually need to do something a bit smarter than a one-to-one conversion. I haven't looked at the conversions in Java lately, but perhaps this conversion has become a bit more rigorous in 1.5.

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