On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 11:13:47 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
>How about a parameter to specify the code page conversions?
>Or can the output be an XMIT file so an XMIT viewer be used?
>
Does XMIT indicate the code page?
EBCDIC is a nightmare. For example, an IBM web page:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.5.0/administering/tools/dfha7c0019.html
In the character sets given in this information, the dollar symbol ($) is
used as a national
currency symbol and is assumed to be assigned the EBCDIC code point X'5B'.
In some countries a different currency symbol, for example the pound symbol
(£), or
the yen symbol (¥), is assigned the same EBCDIC code point. In these
countries, the
appropriate currency symbol should be used instead of the dollar symbol.
Isn't this ambiguity an invitation to disaster? It would have been far wiser to
use distinct uncommitted code points for '£' or '¥' rather than overloading '$'.
(But ISO-8859-x has similar problems. UNICODE is the right answer.)
>On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 9:02 AM Mario Bezzi wrote:
>>
>> ..., properly managing
>> mainframe code pages is impossible as the terse container doesn't carry
>> such information, and one can only guess.
-- gil
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