GIYF. I refer you to these Wikipedia references, the first of which makes it quite clear that iso-8859-1 is definitely NOT Windows, though it does call it "ASCII-based"; and the second of which is a nice reference for IBM-1047, from which you can see that there is a reasonable chance to convert between the two encodings, though not completely transparently, whatever IBM chooses to call the iso-8859-1 encoding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_1047 HTH Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 6:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OCOPY fails to convert text On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:32:43 -0800, retired mainframer wrote: >:>: >:>: ISO 8859-1[1] is Latin 1, not ASCII. > >From the UNIX Systems Services Command Reference: " BPXFX311. Specifies an >ASCII-EBCDIC conversion table to convert between code pages ISO8859-1 and >IBM-1047." > >It doesn't matter what the official title of ISO 8859-1 is. For getting >OCOPY to perform the desired conversion, it only matters that IBM uses it to >mean to ASCII. > Well, Shmuel, pedantically and characteristically, is insisting that "ASCII" means precisely a 7-bit character set (even as USS does not mean UNIX System Services). But, is there a convenient alternative collective term designating those 8-bit character sets in which 'A' is 0x41; '0' is 0x30, etc.? Perhaps Shmuel can, in a more constructive mode, suggest one. Does ISO Latin include ISO8859-x (and some Windows-peculiar character sets) and exclude IBM-1047? -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
