(Cross-posted)
Appendix L of the Commands Ref. Contains 1845 words describing
the complexities of autoconversion and controlling it. This is
Too Much and Never Enough. It appears that autoconversion was
never a planned design; it "Jes' growed like Topsy."
If an (ISV-supplied?) utility uses UNICODE internally, such as
UTF-8, prevalent on desktops such as Mac OS and Linux:
1489 $ echo aπb | sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1 2 \2 3 \3/'
1 a 2 π 3 b
1490 $ echo aπb | od -tx1
0000000 61 cf 80 62 0a
0000005
1491 $
How should its files be tagged? How should autoconversion
operate?
I hate EBCDIC!
--
gil
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
