On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 11:36, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> wrote: > > 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.
But this is still a problem of using the wrong translation table - not of REXX or of EBCDIC or ASCII (ISO) code pages. All of the mentioned CPs contain both the | and ! characters, so any translation that changes one character to another is wrong. (I understand some historic reasons for intentionally mistranslating - mostly because various terminals could not enter or display certain characters. But in the days of terminal emulators, there is surely no longer any excuse.) Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
