Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>>Is this the right translation for Radoslaw? If so, he would be glad.
>On Linux, not on z/OS.

Ok. Thanks.


>>Or you can easily use REXX function TRANSLATE to do the same [1] , but if the 
>>input is large, then you may have some long overhead.
>Does that work for MBCS?

Hmmm, interesting question. I never used Multi Byte Character Set at all. 
That's a very interesting thing. I will also sniff around REXX-L about this.


>>>BTW, why is the collating sequence for En_US just plain wrong?
>>En_US is not wrong, but Radoslaw needs to use his country's code page. 

>In fact, my Linux setting was:
>572 $ locale -a
>C
>C.UTF-8
>en_US.utf8
>POSIX
>573 $ 

Yes, that is important. I will ask my Linux guru about this. Thanks for your 
kind posting.


>... evidently vim understands polish characters even in the U.S.A.
>But my complaint is that for LC_COLLATE=En_US, SORT on z/OS gives results very 
>simlar to LC_COLLATE=C, whereas LC_COLLATE=En_CA gives more reasonable 
>results.  Problem does not occur on Linux.

Ok, very interesting. Thanks for your very kind clarification. I believe this 
will help others too.

Thanks Paul, I really value your reply!

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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