On 2015-01-14, at 23:31, Timothy Sipples wrote: > > John McKown writes: >> This might help people to convert to z/OS. Of >> course, there is still that nasty EBCDIC >> issue for any conversion. > > That's just not correct. > > z/OS imposes absolutely no requirement to use or to convert to EBCDIC. > Zero, zip, nada. Store and manage everything in Unicode if you like. (Many > do and do like.) Or Plutocode, or McKowncode. Choose whatever character > encoding you like. > Huh!?
I have tried building FOSS with the C compiler ASCII option. It works well for "Hello, World" but fails miserably for anything real-world, first because lack of ASCII versions of essential libraries such as Curses and X11. There's no support for Plutocode or McKowncode. Of course, the bare metal is character set unbiased and Linux runs well in ASCII on the z. But John and I are concerned with z/OS which has strong EBCDIC biases. Have you been swallowing IBM's drugs? May we expect ASCII versions of X11 and Curses libraries shortly? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
