On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 10:16:26 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >Git on z/OS used to only support IBM-1047 and ISO8859-1. The latest >release supports many more code pages including UTF-8 but the default > z/OS isn't monolithic. ISPF Edit has long well supported UTF-8 within the limitations of whatever 3278 code page. Are there desktop ISPF/XEDIT lookalikes that relax the limitation?
What components other than ISPF have come along later? >when cloning a repo >from external hosting such Github is to tag ISO8859-1. Whatever flicks >yer switch. > Isn't file tagging peculiar to z/OS? Does git shun UTF-83 Hmmm. In my desktop Linux, in sed regexen, both BRE and ERE, /./ matches a character. In awk /./ matches an octet. Grrr. And printf field width specifications seem to assume octets, not characters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
