On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 19:49:26 +0000, Denis wrote: > How about that: >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.5.0?topic=literals-utf-8 >Its available in earlier releases. >Denis. Somewhere in there I see: convenient to represent general Unicode code points in the literal using only EBCDIC characters
"convenient" I suppose, compared to binary. I'm imagining composing a program on a reasonable terminal, not encumbered by a 256-character stet, followed by a preprocessor which would convert everything outside strings to EBCDIC and treat UTF-8 strings properly. Better, Extended ASCII support for COBOL as z/OS provides for XL C/C++. Is there anything comparable to FLOWASM for COBOL? > On Monday, January 5, 2026 at 08:10:15 PM GMT+1, Phil Smith III 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. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
