Code set conversion APIs
ELF objects contain string literals that are encoded in the ISO8859-1 code set. Most CDA operations accept and return string literals encoded in this code set. Applications on the z/OS® platform use code sets that are supported by the ICONV function. In fact, the majority of applications on the z/OS platform use string literals encoded in IBM®-1047 code set. Before an application encoded in the IBM-1047 code set can use an ELF object, it has to convert the input strings to the ISO8859-1 code set.
For more information about the
iconv utility, see z/OS Common Debug Architecture User's Guide, SC09-7653. For
a list of code sets supported by the iconv utility, see z/OS XL C/C++ Programming Guide, SC09-4765.The following information describes the operations that allow users to convert input strings to and from ISO8859-1 and IBM-1047 encoding.