I had never considered this until Gil posted his problem with DC CA'[]'
where the [] characters are the IBM-1047 code points for those glyphs
instead of the CP-037 code points. I have the same problem . I have set my
3270 emulator to "Latin1", or IBM-1047, so that I can use OMVS and have use
some special characters such as: {, }, [, and ]. which UNIX expects in the
IBM-1047 character set, not the CP-037. Now, the C language can accept
multiple code sets if the program is separated into multiple input files
which contain a #pragma filetag("..codeset.."). Thinking on this, I wonder
if it would be helpful to be able to specify a different code page, perhaps
dynamically via a PCONTROL CODEPAGE type instruction.
Or is this just adding unnecessary complications? I can set my 3270
emulator back to "normal" and just use ssh directly from my desktop to a
UNIX shell prompt. Which is what I do 99% of the time anyway.
--
Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of
everything and the Wirth of nothing?
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
