On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:41:22 +0000, Bigendian Smalls wrote: >The answer may be in compiling it to be Unicode based. Gonna look into it >with the extra 'round tuits. > In the UTF-8 representation, then, please. UTF-8 is a marvelously compatible superset of USASCII. Near zero (well, at worst minimal) effort to adapt. And it's the de facto World Wide Web standard.
Don't indulge in wishful thinking that a Unicode based compiler can smoothly accept eiter ASCII or EBCDIC source code. The EBCDIC will need to be converted. >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 6:28 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >> >> AFAIK that version is strictly EBCDIC, intended to be run using JCL in batch >> jobs accessing EBCDIC datasets. It uses a customized EBCDIC version of the >> PDCLib library routines (public domain C library code). >> But an 8-character limit is absurd. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
