How about that: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.5.0?topic=literals-utf-8 Its available in earlier releases. Denis. On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 08:10:15 PM GMT+1, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: Right, that's why I was joking. Maybe: PIC UTF8(6) VALUE U+0445U+043EU+0440U+043EU+0448U+043E.
Still fugly but unambiguous and it'd work. But I suspect at this point we're solving a problem nobody REALLY has. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, January 5, 2026 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Please vote for COBOL "idea" for reverse character translation On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 12:47:47 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >Right, need a UTF8 data type: > PIC UTF8(6) VALUE 'хорошо'. >...or something like that. > >(Yes, I'm sorta/mostly kidding) > ... Did you do that on a 327x, perhaps with CP 880? The problem occurs when you add a third language or any two other than English/ I believe Peter mentioned the necessary PIC. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
