PK39192: Diffmerge incorrectly selects encoding based on locale

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• KSC5601 encoding (simplified explanation)
  Variable width characters, single byte code blocks.
  Characters are either a single byte in the range 0x00-0x7F or
  two bytes in which the first byte is in the range 0x80-0xFF and
  the second is in the range 0x00-0xFF.
  This is the Korean equivalent of SHIFT-JIS. It's the encoding
  system Microsoft uses for Korean files in tools like notepad.
  In an ASCII file, Latin1 codepage the byte sequence E1 20 is
  an accented a (?) followed by a space.  In a KSC5601 encoded
  file E1 20 is viewed as a double-byte Korean character, however
  there is no Korean character defined at this codepoint so the
  two bytes become a single unknown
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• Diffmerge incorrectly selects encoding based on locale
  

Problem conclusion

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  Due to the age and limitations of the current ClearCase GUI
  applications, we are in the process of replacing them with
  newer
  versions. In order to most effectively allocate our
  resources,
  we are limiting the work we do on the legacy GUIs. Since the
  legacy GUIs would need to be completely rewritten anyway to
  deal with these issues, we do not plan to expend resources
  to
  implement this in the current GUI.
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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