On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 22:32:36 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >TRTT is not in any way Unicode-dependent. It is table-driven, does >what it is told to do. The only requirement is that both source and >target character sets be DBCSs. The TRTE (translate and Test >Extended) instruction is also 1) Unicode-independent and 2) processes >either SBCSs or DBCSs parametrically. Halfword alignment is >irrelevant in all of these cases. SBCS, DBCS, or MBCS. (A >character-set element must of course begin on some byte boundary, but >this 'restriction' is not really an interesting one.) > I take it you're saying that TRTT/TRTE will recognize alike the x'0D 25' digraph in either x'C1 C2 0D 25 C3 C4' or x'C1 0D 25 C2 C3 C4', with no shift-in...shift-out indicators, which are not to be expected in the OP's misbegotten data?
I'm somewhat surprised. (I purposely said "digraph" rather than "double byte character".) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
