On 2020-09-16, at 23:14:40, Alan Altmark wrote:
>     ...
> I've been trying to stamp out non-standard code pages since the late 1990s
> when I did Euro enablement for VM TCP/IP.  That's when I added nearly 200
> EBCDIC-ASCII translation tables (TCPXLATE/TCPXLBIN files).
>
There's something very wrong here.  Excess complexity is
not repaired by adding complexity.  (Homeopaty?  "We have
too many code pages, so lets add more code pages.")

The answer is UNICODE.

-- gil

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