cent sign not displayed correctly in Explore for Endevor

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

Cent sign displayed correctly in Endevor quick edit

Opened the same element in vscode Endevor explore and got the following display:

 

Environment

Endevor V19

Vscode Explorer for Endevor

Cause

Explorer for Endevor vscode extension is based on Endevor REST API (Web Services). 

Endevor Web Service configuration wsParameters - The CodePage and CharacterSet parameters enable Web Services to translate the plain text information that is exchanged between the client computer and the API.

By default, the CharacterSet is set to UTF-8, and this is the only CharacterSet encoding accepted by Endevor explorer in vscode, check out extension limitations here. 

By default Codepage is set to cp01140 - alias of ebcdic-us-37+euro, in ISPF, under both cp01140 and cp037, cent sign can be displayed correctly. 

Wrong configuration found in ENDEVOR.cfg

      <wsParameters Lang="EN"
                    TimeZone="GMT-6.0"
                    CodePage="cp01140"
                    Encoding="cp01140"
                    CharacterSet="ISO8859-1"
                    LFSEncoding="ISO8859-1"
                    ContentType="Text"
                    Trace="TestMonitorSTCPool"
                    Traced="ALL" />

Resolution

Encoding and LFSEncoding are deprecated. 

Update ENDEVOR.cfg, and set CharacterSet to UTF-8:

                  CodePage="cp01140"          
                  CharacterSet="utf-8"

Restart Tomcat after the change made in ENDEVOR.cfg. 

 

Also make sure UTF-8 is set for Files:Encoding (default setting) in vscode.