Comments on: Character delimited csv with double byte data http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/character-delimited-csv-with-double-byte-data/ Thu, 23 May 2013 23:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: TomLiotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/character-delimited-csv-with-double-byte-data/#comment-109796 TomLiotta Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:08:44 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/character-delimited-csv-with-double-byte-data/#comment-109796 I also don’t know it can’t be done. With little experience to go on and no experimentation, I can think of three things that might relate.
 

First, it can’t work. By definition, the .CSV format doesn’t handle DBCS. The file format is defined as a container for basic text. It doesn’t know about mixed-byte forms where delimiters and some columns are encoded differently than other columns.
If it can work, it must be created as a UTF-16 file. That’s what Excel should support.
To get it readable in Excel, use the Excel File->Open dialog. Don’t double-click, don’t use Windows Explorer, and don’t drag/drop. The interpretation of how to handle the byte encodings sometimes seems to happen only when processed through the right code paths.
 
Those are all “quick thoughts” possibilities, not actual results of testing. But they do have some technical background.
 
Tom

]]> By: BigKat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/character-delimited-csv-with-double-byte-data/#comment-109794 BigKat Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:24:17 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/character-delimited-csv-with-double-byte-data/#comment-109794 I don’t KNOW that CPYTOIMPF can’t be setup to handle it properly, but I do know that I have only seen Japanese DBCS handled successfully by using CPYTOPCD with the TRNIGC(*JPN) option specified which creates a file in the QDLS folders.  This file was then moved to an IFS directory and used from there. 

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