InterForm Manual - System & Method

U nicode, DBCS and multiple codepage support in
InterForm400
InterForm400 supports both unicode and DBCS (Double Byte Character Set). For a
description of unicode refer to www.unicode.org.
The unicode support in InterForm400 consists of 2 parts:
1. Previously spooled files handled by InterForm400 could only contain one codepage. Now
also special unicode spooled files can be handled in InterForm400. This is described in details
on page 43 and in Appendix D.
2. Multiple codepages are implemented in the InterForm400 setup and screens. The
enhancements to the menus and screens are described below.
Important: To notice after upgrading from a pre 2007 version
After you have upgraded InterForm400, you might notice that text fields in the overlay and
fields in the e-mail finishing definition are displayed in yellow (with the text code page is not
specified) as below:
The yellow colour and ‘Code page not specified.’ indicates that the field is not yet linked with a
code page, but if you press Enter on this screen the text is from now on printed EXACTLY as
displayed (the code page of your 5250 session is saved with the text).
If you previously have typed in text in a 5250 session running one code page knowing, that it
would be used in a different code page you should now stop that way of working
(It could be e.g. that you have typed in a ‘§’ (Hex ‘7C’) sign in a 5250 session running the
german code page 273, because Hex ‘7C’ is to used in the US code page 37 to denote the ‘@’
sign - if the machine ran code page 37...).
In 2007 (and future) versions these fields are really printed as they look - if the code page of
the 5250 session is in the same symbol set as used for the merge.
Notice that the symbol sets are:
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