On 1/9/2012 10:17 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
My original definition of the term 'ligature' should perhaps have been
more restrictive. The Latin verb ligare means just to bind; and there
are surgical ligatures, musical ligatures, etc., etc. My focus was on
typographic ligatures; and even they come in two flavors:
1) 'æ' and 'œ' are diphthong ligatures, standard in most
Roman-alphabet fonts and having their own assigned code points, SBCS,
DBCS, or M[ultiple]BCS;
o 'ffl', 'fi' and the like are typesetters' ligatures, usually found
only in 'expert' fonts and not having their own code points, probably
because needs for them vary from font to font.
As I have had occasion to note before, we have good zArchitecture,
z/OS and HLASM support for UNICODE availablegto us; and it is time we
all started using it, at least in new undertakings.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
Yes, and I am finishing up Version 2 of my File RePackager software
which expands the previous version primarily by adding support for
UTF-8 and UTF-16 (UTF-32 is somewhat problematic as the HTML 5
standard recommends _not_ using it). So it will be easy to copy
from any supported code page to any supported code page:
Several EBCDIC pages (more to come)
Several ASCII pages (more to come)
UTF-8
UTF-16
and, if so desired, changing record size and format among these:
MVS sequential: F or V
HFS files, format Binary, Text, or Record
* using record delimiters of CR, CRLF, LF, LFCR, NL, x'00'
* using record length prefixes of 1, 2, or 4 bytes
in any combination that makes logical sense
Any supported ASCII page, any supported EBCDIC page or UTF-8 or UTF-16 ->
any
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Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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