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Latin1 data conversion issues in DataStage job

Troubleshooting


Problem

Why is DataStage job is converting “Non-breaking space” in the source file to “Latin capital letter A with circumflex” in target file when data types is defined as char with Extended Unicode in source and target stages on Information Server 81 FP1

Symptom

Invalid character(s) ([xA0]) found converting string (code point(s): Donald[xA0]/[xA0]Janice) from codepage UTF-8 to Unicode, substituting.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSVSEF","label":"IBM InfoSphere DataStage"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF010","label":"HP-UX"},{"code":"PF027","label":"Solaris"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"9.1;8.7;8.5;8.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}}]

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Modified date:
25 April 2025

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