Agreed. See my prior reply.
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Saturday, January 3, 2026 1:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Please vote for COBOL "idea" for reverse character translation
On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 02:25:18 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Addendum: In character and hex on a 3270 terminal, your MOVE (broken into two
>parts to fit in an 80-byte record with COBOL format) would look like this
>(each of the non-Romance-character words are two bytes per character):
>
>000109 MOVE U'Latin, JØJaJccJ½c}Ý}½, español, français, '
> 44444444444DDEC4E7D8A8964D8D8D88DB8DBDB648A98499648989488A6474
> 00000000000465504D31395B010111331830A08B05271963B069158192B0D0
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
Escerpting your post, I see:
'Latin,
7D8A896
D31395B
Those code points are *not* UTF-8; they're EBCDIC!
Should be:
618 $ echo Latin, | od -tx1
0000000 4c 61 74 69 6e 2c 0a
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