Scott, you are asking this question on an assembler list. I do not dare to answer althru there are various codepages for various purposes on VM - VSE or MVS (CICS, LE, HLASM, COBOL, "z/PDT UR-input/outputhandling")
OR are you asking this question in a Linux context? My linux runs on almost everything in Unicode (except when it comes to data for a customer running a mainframe op-sys. I then resort to 7-bit-ascii (no Umlauts and such- you never know where you end up) -- Martin Pi_cap_CPU - all you ever need around MWLC/SCRT/CMT in z/VSE more at http://www.picapcpu.de
