On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:29:56 -0400, Knutson, Sam wrote: > >This is the document I was directed to > >http://tinyurl.com/2fg3pgj > >The Link is > >https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/news/NewsServlet.wss?referrer=newsMain&command=Get&news_item_id=4405&lc=en&cc=US > >IBM standards dictate UTF-8 character encoding for all web pages. Records in >the ETR application are ultimately created in a legacy z/OS system using >single byte EBCDIC character encoding. The umlaut characters are multi-byte >characters in the UTF-8 character set and are not properly translated to >EBCDIC. Buffer overruns are created when trying to translate text that >contains these characters because the number of bytes in the text may be >greater than the number of characters. We are working on a fix. > This is moronic. Empirically, it seems that ETR/IBMLink/RETAIN wraps lines at column 72. Apparently someone took this to mean 72 characters when the hard limit needs to be 72 bytes. How long should it take to fix a problem that's so easily understood?
How long should it take to install a test to forestall buffer overruns? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
