On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 18:11:39 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >Speculation on my part but I think CP1047 was created in part to allow for >square brackets given their use in new programming languages at x’AD’ = ‘[‘ >and x’BD’ = ‘]’ > >Those characters were not in 037 that I can find ... > They are in 037 <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ccsid-comparisons>: BA left bracket BB right bracket
> ...but apparently there are multiple versions of that 037. > WTF!? That makes as little sense as "multiple versions of π." >I recall writing in SAS C back in the late 80’s and had to use ‘(|’ for [ and >‘|)’ for ] and it was a PITA the code that way. > They may not have appeared on various output devices, but that is hardly solved by introducing an additional code page. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
