On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 15:23, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 03:20:27 +0800, David Crayford  wrote:
>
> >We recently had a problem where a customer using a German codepage
> >(IBM-273) used the ISPF editor to edit a z/OS UNIX file tagged
> >ISO8859-1. The ISPF editor translated the file to EBCDIC (don't ask me
> >why it does that. I much rather it stay in ASCII).
> >
> You mean ZTERMCID is 273?  Does the ISO8859-1 file contain
> characters with no representation in IBM-273?

By definition there are no characters in ISO8859-1 that are not in
IBM-273. All the so-called Western European Country Extended Code
Pages (CECPs) are encodings of the same character set that ISO-8859-1
encodes. So you're asking if the file tagged ISO8859-1 is invalid?

Tony H.

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