On 3 November 2014 17:58, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > on 11/03/2014 at 09:53 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: > >>Make sure your terminal emulator is in code page IBM-1047 (C language >>and UNIX) and not IBM-037 (historic OS/360, MVS, z/OS). > > Historically IBM has had multiple EBCDIC code pages. The ones that I'm > most familiar with have []{} at AD, BD, C0 and D0, but others have > them at different code points. Which is *the* historic EBCDIC?
There isn't really any code page that implements "historic" EBCDIC. The SHARE ASCII EBCDIC Task Force proposed a code page 037-2 that was a mix of 037 and 500, and IBM responded with 1047, which fixes some things and breaks others. The two main roots for these code pages are the assignment of the square brackets on the TN and T11 print chains/trains, and those on the early 3270 terminals and printers like the 3277. To the extent that square brackets are definitive, 1047 is the closest to "historic" there is. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
