Do you use Polish names in Poland? Do they use French names in France? Why wouldn't somebody use their native language for file names?
The rest of the world is, or is rapidly becoming, Unicode. Expecting users to confine their file names to an 8-bit code page is an exercise in futility. I'm comfortable with EBCDIC, but outsize of z it's becoming increasingly more irrelevant. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Radoslaw Skorupka [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names W dniu 27.01.2022 o 22:01, Paul Gilmartin pisze: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:22:02 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >> ... >> Hebrew is much harder (for computers) than "latin-like" alphabets like >> Polish, Spanish, German, etc. >> > Harder only for obsolete computers. No, it's harder for users. I did use (play with) very strange characters in PC-DOS, 30+ years ago. I did play with Hebrew Windows 3.1, etc. However I see no technical reason to use such names in production. Your new_and_shining computer can manage any character, but maybe someone has older terminal or connects from also_new_and_shining_BUT_DIFFERENT computer and then my Ł would become ⁴ or so. BTW: In the very old days my master thesis was crippled by slightly different versions of MS Word. ł was changed to 3 upper index. It happened in math formulas only. And the ł was in lower index. Inception... Of course it was data, not filename. The filename was in 8.3 format. Nevermind, this is off-topic. My question was WHY? Why bother with non-typical names? What is the rationale behind? As far as I know, no one tries to use Hebrew or Cyrillic characters in dataset or member names. Even no lowercase. And of course it caused some troubles - that's why we see this thread on the list. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
