I have used Japanese (930) and traditional Chinese (937) with the appropriate EBCDIC Host Code Page. So yes DBCS is supported on a green screen
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 20, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:35:40 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >> I wonder if it might make sense to go UTF-32 even to disk, but compress the >> data. >> >> I wonder how well standard compression schemes work with UTF-32? Are they >> too octet-oriented to work optimally? >> > A non-scientific sample: > 1995 $ ls -l ~ | wc > 24 213 1403 > 1996 $ ls -l ~ | gzip | wc > 1 9 441 > 1997 $ ls -l ~ | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-32 | wc > 24 213 5616 > 1998 $ ls -l ~ | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-32 | gzip | wc > 0 9 679 > >> I wonder if one might write an LZW implementation that assumed 32-bit >> characters. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
