I already answered that question; I don't consider EBCDIC code pages to be intrinsically superior to most other 8-bit code pages. The reason that it's superior to ASCII is that ASCII is 8 bit.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Strings (was : Fair comparison C vs HLASM) On 2018-02-09, at 15:05:19, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Pretty much any EBCDIC code page is superior to ASCII. As to what to call > 8-bit code pages, I'd suggest using the term" 8-bit code page" and reserving > the term "ASCII" for ASCII. Especially if you find yourself having to > transfer data among machines using different code pages. > But be fair. How would you rate IBM1148 against ISO-8859-15, not "any EBCDIC" against "ASCII"? -- gil
