In
<cc42e2f56d60f24fb8a6bcc639d1d96331ad0...@samtcasxmb46.usa.dce.usps.gov>,
on 05/15/2015
at 06:54 PM, "Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN" <dave.l.han...@usps.gov>
said:
>My Square Brackets disappeared and my Java won't compile.
What code points get sent? What is your ISPF terminal type? What
compiler and options are you using?
>"C is another problem child.
It may be an obsolte, ugly and unsafe language, but the fault here
does not lie with C.
>It uses funky characters
No. The funkiness resides in IBM assigning them to different code
points in different EBCDIC code pages.
>like the square brackets '[]',
Bog standard ASCII, and languages older than EBCDIC use them.
>curly brackets '{}'
Bog standard ASCII
>and broken vertical bar '|'.
Bog standard ASCII
>These move around (or disappear) depending on your code page.
Aha! So it's the EBCDIC code pages, not C.
>But with C there's another catch: it's designed to use EBCDIC 1047,
>not EBCDIC 0037."
No; it's not designed to use either. Don't confuse the compiler with
the language.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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