Specifying code pages per input connector

If the same code page is used for all input data received via an input connector, you can specify the code page when you configure the input connector in the Platform.

To specify the code page

1	Create a filter chain, or use an existing filter chain.

2	Open the filter chain.

3	In the filter chain editor, right-click the flow bar and select Add Filter > Codepage Filter. A new code page filter is added to the flow bar.

4	From the Code page drop-down list, select the appropriate code page.

5	Save the filter chain and close the filter chain editor.

6	Activate the generic layer in the Platform view.

7	In the Platform view, double-click the input connector. The Input Connector Settings dialog box opens.

8	Click the Filter Chain icon and browse to and select the filter chain that contains the code page filter.

To specify the byte order for UCS-2 encoded data

For the UTF-16 encoding schemes, each character code unit is represented by two bytes. When you select UCS-2 as code page, you must also specify how the bytes are ordered for each code unit – most significant byte first or last.

From the Byte order drop-down list, select the appropriate option.

Option	When to select
Most significant byte first (Big Endian)	When the input is encoded using the encoding schemes UTF-16BE (big endian without byte order mark) or UTF-16 (big endian with or without byte order mark)
Most significant byte last (Little Endian)	When the input is encoded using the encoding schemes UTF-16LE (little endian without byte order mark) or UTF-16 (little endian with byte order mark.

Example 2

Code page filter connected to the input connector (Platform).

In this example, input data received via the input connector is ISO 8859-15 encoded. A code page filter with the code page ISO 8859-15 is connected to the input connector.