Paul Gilmartin wrote: > It is my understanding that 1047 was created in response to a > user Requirement to be congruent to 8859-1.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by congruent, but 1047, 037, 500, and many of those other Country Extended Code Pages (CECPs) used in France, the UK, Germany, etc. encode exactly the same character set (character repertoire) that IBM calls Character Set 697, and ISO calls Latin-1. You will not find a character or a control point in one that is not in the others. Various other CECPs exist that encode different CSs, e.g. CS 941 for Hebrew and English is encoded by EBCDIC CP 424 and also ASCII CP 916. CS959 for central European countries is encoded by EBCDIC CP 870, and ASCII CP 912 (which ISO calls Latin-2). And so on... CP 1047 was created as a result of the ASCII EBCDIC Character Set (ÆCS) task force at SHARE, many years ago. At that time (1991 IIRC) the project recommended, among other things, the creation of a new codepage known as 037-2 for lack of a better term, that would address the problems of mapping square brackets and certain other characters (notably ¬ ¢ ! ^) in a way useful to users of ASCII terminals on EBCDIC mainframes. But CP 037 already contained all the characters it does today, so this was just a rearrangement and compromise between codepages 037 and 500, which IBM was pushing at the time. All these CECPs, btw, are restricted to 190 displayable characters, for compatibility with the 3270 architecture. This is often a point of contention with (particularly) Windows people, who don't understand why they can't just overlay control points with characters. Well thay have done just that, and that is why you won't find a 3270 (emulator or real green-screen) that can display all the characters in Windows 1252. But I digress... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
