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Character conversion errors are seen in director job log "converting string from UTF-8 to Unicode, substituting" when LANG or LC_ALL is set to JA_JP.UTF-8

Troubleshooting


Problem

Jobs run with a Japanese locale set on an AIX server can report conversion errors from Unicode to UTF-8 in the job log.

Symptom

Log entries such as the following are see in the job log, these messages can come from a variety of stages.


main_program: Invalid character(s) ([x83]) found converting string (code point(s): XML Output [x83]X[x83]e[x81][x5B][x83]W) from codepage UTF-8 to Unicode, substituting.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSVSEF","label":"IBM InfoSphere DataStage"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Not Applicable","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"}],"Version":"8.5.0.1;8.5","Edition":"All Editions","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}}]

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Modified date:
25 April 2025

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