On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 10:17:03 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
> ...
>There are so many useful glyphs available in UTF-8 that aren't in any
>current 3270 terminal CCSID and which can't be in any 3270 terminal
>CCSID without throwing out some other characters. it's a shame if ISPF
>is still inseparably tied to 3270-architecture restrictions. I guess
>another way to look at it is that any application that needs to fully
>support UTF-8 data just can't be written as an ISPF application.
>
NFS with desktop editors has worked well for me. There should be
more interest in NFS.
Likewise ssh. The default 1047<->819 can be exploited. I haven't much
depended on non-Latin characters, but as an experiment I tried:
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 <non-Latin UTF-8 file
ssh reversed the translation (yes, it's bijective) and with my desktop
locale set to UTF-8 it displayed correctly
Is there any simple way to make ISPF handle tabs as naturally as
any desktop editor, where I press the TAB key and it simply inserts
a TAB character at that point in the file, not expanding it.
(I don't count hex as 'simple'. Maybe a PF key?)
--
gil
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