On Jan 27, 2010, at 07:00, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > 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. > I'm not sure where you'll find an MVS system nowadays, (perhaps on Hercules?), but z/OS has support for UTF-8.
-- gil
