>The command response in the text of your email was >very hard to read, no doubt due to some translations >(code page?) along the way. There were two characters >that did not display correctly on my PC. > >I have to wonder if that is somehow connected???
It sure is! As I have tried to explain earlier, Josef is running his emulator with a German code page (273 or 1141) but his shell session is running in the default locale which means it is using code page 1047. The error message is coded to send square brackets and these are encoded in code page 1047, i.e. X'AD' and x'BD'. If those characters are the displayed in the emulator using code page 1141 they show up as Ý and ¨. >Let's put the blame on Windows. ;-) While I usually agree, it is not involved this time ;-) BTW, I'm talking about z/OS UNIX not about z/OS MVS. The latter is much less multicultural. MVS commands expect text to be encoded in code page 037, so does TSO. Fortunately both MVS commands and TSO are only using characters that are code page invariant. (I never dealt with a Kanji MVS, so I can't tell how this works.) REXX is always expecting its code to be in code page 037 (here we go again: German code page users need to use the exclamation point when REXX actually wants a verical bar.) This applies also to REXX scripts run from a shell session. ISPF is somewhat customizable (Don't ask me details, I never fully got it). This list is not exhaustive. Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
