On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 14:29:38 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Well, it started with IBM making a bad guess as to what ASA/USASA/ANSI would
>pass as the 8-bit ASCII (which died on the vine). Then there was a plethora of
>8-bit code pages loosely based on ASCII ("a maze of twisty passages, all
>alike"). This is not just a mainframe issue.
>
I found my Wayback bookmark:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20180513204153/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM>
>Long term we'll all wind up on URF-8, and the old issues will be replaced by
>ne ones. Meanewhile, file tagging is part of the interim solution.
>
An early new issue is the (mis-)behavior of width specifications in formats
in the printf() family with variable-length encodings. Does LE handle
this well?
--
gil
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