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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
