2008/4/4 Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, 1140 is indeed essentially 037+Euro; and 924 is > apparently 1047+euro; it is not supported in SDSF nor > Vista tn3270. It does appear to be supported in ISPF, > however. But it's not clear to me how to tell ISPF to > use that code page. Any guidance you can give me on that?
Well I'm not sure; I know nothing about any recent changes to ISPF code page support. But it seems to me that explicit ISPF support shouldn't be necessary, since the Euro is at X'9F' in both 924 and 1140, and in both cases the non-Euro equivalent codepages have that bizarre, cold war era "international currency symbol" aka the sputnik, at X'9F'. When I set ISPF (1.8) to terminal type 28 (which seems to mean CP 1047), and edit a dataset with a X'9F' in it, I see the sputnik, using version 1.24 of Vista. So ISPF is not turning the X'9F' into a dot or similar "bad character" character, and it is making it out to the emulator. So I think this is "simply" a question of the PC-side display font and input method. I think you need to talk to Tom about how he maps EBCDIC data to display fonts. I see in the Vista Thick font supplied by Tom, the sputnik is at X'A4', and the Euro is at X'B0', which matches the Microsoft ever-growing CP1252, rather than ISO 8859-15 (IBM CP 923). Another approach is to use one of the many font editing packages to move the Euro to X'A4' in whatever fonts you use with Vista. [In passing, there are other differences between the Euro and non-Euro codepages, but unless you need support for fancy French or certain other less common European languages, it shouldn't be a problem.] 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
