French characters display issue in Endevor

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• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

After adding a COBOL element containing French character into Endevor via Eclipse, the values displayed are not correct.

 

Example of French characters in AYCAPQ on Eclipse

+0100  000055 01  LOWER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'àâäæçèéêëîïôùûü'.

+0100  000056 01  UPPER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'ÀÂÄÆÇÈÉÊËÎÏÔÙÛÜ'.

 

 

Example of French characters in AYCAPQ on Mainframe

+0102  000055 01  LOWER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'ÓÔõµþÞÚÛÙ¯´¶]¹³'. 

+0102  000056 01  UPPER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE '...ãÃ......È...'. 

Resolution

Update Endevor.cfg for Endevor web services using the following setting and recycle Tomcat after the change.

Set Eclipse Text file encoding to ISO-8859-1 (Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace->Text file encoding)

Re-add COBOL element that contains French characters to Endevor via Eclipse which corrects the character translation. 

Display element in Eclipse

000055 01  LOWER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'àâäæçèéêëîïôùûü'.     AYCAPQ.S
000056 01  UPPER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'ÀÂÄÆÇÈÉÊËÎÏÔÙÛÜ'.     AYCAPQ.S

Display element in Endevor 

 +0100  000055 01  LOWER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'àâäæçèéêëîïôùûü'. 
 +0100  000056 01  UPPER-CASE-FRENCH     PIC X(15) VALUE 'ÀÂÄÆÇÈÉÊËÎÏÔÙÛÜ'.