Codepages

Each MQSeries request consists of a single message containing a commandline character string (see above). This commandline string encodes all request parameters and may use any code page for which MQSeries supports conversion to Unicode (WindowsEnabler/MQSeries uses Unicode internally). This usually means that the local code page of the sending application can be used. The only requirements are:

• The CodedCharSetId attribute in the MQSeries message descriptor must be set to the used code page. If the local code page is used the default MQSeries descriptor settings will automatically indicate the correct code page.
• The Format attribute in the MQSeries message descriptor must be set to MQFMT_STRING, in order to enable automatic conversion of the commandline string by MQSeries.