Am 30.01.2021 um 00:39 schrieb Tony Harminc:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 18:21, Radoslaw Skorupka <r.skoru...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Few remarks:
...
4. Source code EBCDIC-ASCII translation. Example: I hate REXX
translation. REXX use || characters while in CP852 it should be !!.
Simple translation corrupts REXX code. C code is corrupted as well.
The | character is at the same code point X'7C' in CP852 (ISO Latin-2)
as it is in CP819 (ISO Latin-1) and most other European language CPs.
The ! character is at X'21' in CP852 and most others. So your problem
is with neither REXX nor with CP852 - it's presumably with some bad
translation table in your FTP or TN3270 or...
The problem is not at the client side (ASCII codepages);
the problem is that the EBCDIC codepages in Europe have the
exclamation point (!) at the place, where the American EBCDIC has |,
and so, if you transfer from an European EBCDIC codepage (273, for
example),
which is standard here in Europe, you will get exclamation points
instead of |
on the PC.
Same problem, if you transfer C programs written on the PC to mainframes;
you have to make sure, that the mainframe C compiler uses the European
EBCDIC codepage, which was not possible in the early days of C on the
mainframe,
so we had to translate the source code to trigraphs after transferring
it to
the mainframe.
Kind regards
Bernd
Tony H.
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