Any text in any code page can be translated into UTF-8 (since it is a merge of all existing ASCII/EBCDIC code pages).
A particular UTF-8 string can be converted into a code page IF, AND ONLY IF, all characters are from that code page. If you have any characters outside that code page, you get a bad character. On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 10:09 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > > David Crayford expounded on some issues with UTF-8 *on z/OS* and > _BPX_AUTOCVT=ALL. All legitimate, all real problems, but really > z/OS issues, not UTF-8 issues. That is, these don't reflect problems with > UTF-8 itself. What we see all the time is data that's > ISO8859-1 and is treated as 7-bit ASCII (which mostly works) or UTF-8 (which > sorta works). The problem, of course, is that every > character in this note works fine in that scenario, but as soon as you get > into some interesting glyphs, Bad Things happen. And then > it's "Your product isn't handling this right"--no, you lied to it and are > paying the price, sorry! Calling a tail a leg doesn't make > it one, even if you can whack things with both of them. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
