Agreed 100% > On Feb 20, 2016, at 6:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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
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