On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:33:31 -0700, gil wrote: >Think Unicode. What'll you do if someone sends you a document >in UTF-8? 256 characters is _so_ Twentieth Century.
If I'm on VM or MVS, I probably won't have DBCS support available to view it anyway. But Bob's gateway may be passing the message on from VM to another system. As long as his translation is reversible, the 8-bit encoded data will get there fine, and it doesn't matter what it looked like in the middle. Meanwhile, though, he also wants the best translation for messages whose final destination is on VM or MVS. ¬R "Carl Sagan is more educational than J.R.R. Tolkien even though they were both total stoners." K. http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/cosmic.html
