Re: codepage

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Walker, Aaron  L wrote:

> I'm trying to get dnsjava to work on my OS390 system, specifically to get
> the java email server working.  My problem is conversion/codepage.  I'm
> working with ebcdic, and I need to alter anything that reads or writes to
> the outside world to change its codepage.  I've converted over the email
> server, and with regards to dnsjava:  do I only need to worry about working
> with the DataByteInputStream and DataByteOutputStream classes?  I think I'm
> only worried about doing Lookups.

To be honest, I have no idea.  The Name class definitely assumes ASCII,
and the conversions between wire/text format in the Record class, and the
Tokenizer class (which wouldn't be used for lookups).  I'm sure other
things do as well.

The other problem is that any change will have a non-trivial performnace
impact, and since the number of systems not using ASCII is so small, any   
changes to support alternative encodings would not be integrated
(although could be distributed as a patch).

Sorry I can't be more helpful...

Brian