On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 19:55:12 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > ... >See reference to Wikipedia below .. you’re right although they refer to the >updated code page 037/0 >> >>> ...but apparently there are multiple versions of that 037. >>> >> WTF!? That makes as little sense as "multiple versions of π." > >I agree. Per the most authoritative source of truth on the planet Wikipedia >says (sarcasm implied), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_37 > ... >Like I said, speculation on my part but at that time on my MVS/XA system there >were no brackets available. I agree, hardly justification. However, all the >code pages and versions of codepages is a bit convoluted. > That begs for context. You don't know the code page. But were you able to examine all 191 displayable graphics (64-254) with a device capable of displaying them properly? If not, you don't know that "there were no brackets available." Most common (hedge) EBCDIC code pages (037, 500, 1047) have brackets. You may just have been using an incapable output device, a deficiency not fixed by adding a code page.
I looked at several (not all) EBCDIC code pages. I found a € at 'E1'x in 1154, Cyrillic. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
