On 9/2/22 9:40 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 15:20:52 +0800, David Crayford wrote:

On 9/2/22 12:48 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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I ran Vim on z/OS. It's part of the Rocket Ported Tools suite. It's uses
enhanced ASCII like all of the ported tools.

Have you played with Vim ":set fileencoding=..."?  It works
splendidly on Linux.
It might be useful for generating tests or with such as:
     : w ! iconv -f IBM-1047 -t UTF-8  >codes

I just tried it and it works. Rockets Vim port is surprisingly good. We also have emacs and a lot of our young guys use that. I like Vim because it's the default editor on *nix sysems and it's always there. Its mode of operation takes some learning but it's worth it. I couldn't imagine using ISPF to edit Unix files but customers do it
which is why I'm researching this EBCDIC issue.



No need. I'm convinced that ISPF edit does not support any codepage
other than 1047. I've opened a case with IBM to confirm. Pretty shabby
implementation if that's true.

It used to support UTF-8.  Regression.  But my recollection might not be 
probative.

I would avoid tagging files UTF-8. For text conversion to work in the shell you need to set _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ALL, at which point almost all programs that use enhanced ASCII
will break. That includes Python, Git, all of Rockets ported tools suite!




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