On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:08:34 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >z/OS Unicode Services, on which I think all of these CCSID translation >implementations are based, fully supports UTF-8 (assuming that's what you mean >by Unicode). I use it all the time. Specify CCSID 1028 as the "ASCII" code >page. > A fair assumption except for those bred in the zSeries tradition, to whom Unicode is likely to mean UCS-2; big-endian; no futher questions. I believe there's even hardware support for this. Don't know about little-endian, pervasive in the outside world. Doubtful about UTF-8 which would require far more complex microcode. So while the WorldWide Web has largely migrated to UTF-8, zSeries remains at UCS-2.
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