IT04513: PCOM: DBCS SESSION WITH HCP 1390/1399, UNICODE UNIQUE CHARACTERS NOT RECORDED CORRECTLY IN MACRO FILES

Personal Communications 6.0.12
Personal Communications 6.0.13
Personal Communications 6.0.15

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• Pcomm 6.0.10 - Winodw 7/8/8.1.
  
  Unicode unique characters cannot be used in Macros even
  Information Center states they can be used in host code page
  1390/1399.
  
  According to the Unicode Support page of the Knowledge
  Center,
  
  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQ5Y_6.0.0/com.i
  bm.pcomm.doc/books/html/admin_guide27.htm
  
  It states as follows.
  
  1390/1399 Code Pages
  
  The following features are supported in Unicode for 1390/1399
  Japanese  character processing.
  
      Print Screen
  >>>>Record and play macros
      Data and file transfer
      Copy, Cut, and Paste
      EHLLAPI. Refer to Emulator Programming for information
       about 1390/1399 transfer APIs.
      Keyboard Customization
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * IBM Personal Communications users with Host Code Page        *
  * 1390/1399                                                    *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * The IBM Personal Communications documentation for Unicode    *
  * Support states that "Record and play macros" feature is      *
  * supported in Unicode for 1390/1399 Japanese character        *
  * processing. However, while recording a macro, some of the    *
  * Unicode unique characters are represented as '?' in the      *
  * generated macro file.                                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Under the current design of IBM Personal Communications, the
  locale setting is used to determine the preferred text encoding
  type, which is SHIFT_JIS PC code page in this case. Since the
  Unicode unique characters do not have equivalents under
  SHIFT_JIS PC code page, these characters are replaced by '?' in
  the generated macro file.
  
  This is currently a design limitation.
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

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Fix information

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