On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:17:13 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > > at 04:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >>Eek! What does it all mean? >Well, 10606 is Unicode, more or less. >>How much of this does ISPF know? >ISPF has its own translate tables. What are you terminal options? > >>I find little about that in: >>z/OS 2.1.0>ISPF>z/OS ISPF Edit and Edit Macros > >Why would you expect to? > I was hoping, more than expecting, that ISPF might provide a macro with a command that would indicate what character set ISPF is using. How does this play with regular expressions in Edit macros where some of the regex metacharacters may not be stable across code pages? How can one author a portable Edit macro containing regexen?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:27:40 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >on 01/29/2015 at 01:33 AM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" said: > >>ISO-8859-1 (and Windows-1252) have a © at X'A9'. > >>They are the standard Internet EMAIL coding method > >Not according to RFC 5321 and 5322. > >Even for MIME, I would expect ISO-8859-15 to be more common than >ISO-8859-1, because of the Euro (€). > If a message contains 8-bit characters, is "Content-transfer-encoding:" required? If "Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT" but the message contains only USASCII characters, is "Character-set:" required? z/OS and z/VM MTAs routinely translate received messages to EBCDIC. Are they in violation by not adjusting "Character-set:" accordingly? (But should the headers be left in ASCII?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
