On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 08:31:12 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: >Sorry about that, I just pasted your text into an ISPF edit session with my >regular CCSID=1047 terminal setting and manually typed in the correct hex >double-byte values for the Russian, Greek, and Hebrew text. > ... Thanks for your perseverance. And this demonstrates that it's extremely difficult, quite impractical to code COBOL UTF-8 strings on a 3278, perhaps on any terminal.
>Bad example. I should have opened a new terminal session with a UTF-8 CCSID >to do it the right way. > >My point was that in hex in an ISPF edit session you should see two vertical >hex characters for each of those UTF-8 characters, just like the horizontal >hex at the bottom of your post. > More than two for most Unicode characters. Unless 3270 data streams can be enhanced to support UTF-8, ISPF should reconsider its decade-s-old Statement of Direction never to support serial terminals. Most of us have on our desktops serial terminals which nicely support UTF-8. You're probably reading this with one now. Might HOD provide a solution? COBOL should provide Enhanced ASCII Support as XL C/C++ do. It Just Works; ISVs rely on it to port FOSSm relying on automatic CCS conversion. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
