On 20 May 2015 at 15:32, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > >>I always thought of Latin 1 as ISO8859-1 > > It is, but Don presumably meant that IBM-1047 was the EBCDIC > equivalent to ISO-8859-1.
Apples and oranges. Latin-1 is what IBM calls a Character Set, and ISO et al call a Character Repertoire. IBM calls this character set CS 697. ISO8859-1 is a Code Page that implements Latin-1, i.e. maps the characters in Latin-1 to byte values. [That "-1" is in both names is coincidental; for instance ISO Latin-9 is implemented by ISO8859-15 (and is also implemented by a number of IBM code pages. such as 1140 and 924).] IBM-1047 is one of a dozen or so IBM code pages that also implement Latin-1, but with different mappings than ISO8859-1. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
