> The IBM-MAIN LISTSERV is not RFC 2047 savvy. Then I assume that it's also not RFC 5335 savvy :-(
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: XMITIP - NLS support for Arabic character On Sun, 16 May 2021 10:26:25 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > ... >https://secure-web.cisco.com/10-9O4qCa7_vMf2YZ4R5r0f37sYvyc0NARfLKcDBC8nnijgiQbZTekOlWUh42br7RjZr1OHzSB6-_jfR9kMMabW-IOIpoHysCdKtvGkxPVuEVoc6XJIgWqfbv6e0pgImFAX-Zf06oGNvz-iL8osGVF3rkQ1FV7BM8QWJIPyi6I2ozsZ1wkO-vgyMkKviEMteNAjodWa2DlSHEjDNhkeuh0UQASqLVKR2KE9pUSj0mxIUNJ3rf6eGkTG-iIcJYrMJ6gx1vDCWRSDU4FoFRzecQ1DU3zggBOh8I6KD1WO8fnzckESnPX4cU34BJgZCNXCoGmaWt4w_LiG7B1n2i8rCVPyCwEnO8RfDlLIyeQEIg13IAO7kxVTNakKuHxHLsc_MYbFFtmd9y5BNYacznByUvb7tDDF8BO-9ixNewRNZigdtIPfaXIf-ILeUXB_nDMAlf/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lbdsoftware.com%2FXMITIP-Guide.pdf > Note that all data on the mainframe is stored in the EBCDIC character set > and is translated to the ASCII character set during the transmission. > Any data that should not be translated should be attached in Binary format. > (More): o Note that since EBCDIC is a 256-character set and ASCII is 128, there is inevitable loss of information. o It doesn't specify *which* EBCDIC character set (there are many, not "the".) >Possibly: iconv -f IBM-420 -t UTF-8 >Then transmit as FORMAT BINary. > >You might yet be frustrated because IBM mainframes (I believe) >store Arabic, etc. text backwards. On Sun, 16 May 2021 09:06:10 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >Terminology Clarification: UTF-8 is of course just one representation >of the Unicode codeset, not the codeset itself. UTF-8 has the advantage >that characters in standard ASCII charset have identical byte >representation in UTF-8, which makes possible some use of UTF-8 even in >email headers. > Use of encoded non-ASCII characters in headers requires considerable gyrations. See section 2 of RFC 2047. The IBM-MAIN LISTSERV is not RFC 2047 savvy. -- 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
