On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 06:52:58 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I got into the habit of <> for not equal in Rexx for that reason. Looking at >Cowlishaw now I see that there is no strict variant of <>. > Indeed. Sometimes, contemptuously, I've used ( 1 - ( X == Y ) ). ( I hadn't yet learned "\==".)
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:15:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >Asfor ISPF, the solution, IMHO, for IBM to open source the WSA and for someone >to port it to, e.g., Linux. Getting ISPF to handle UTF-8 in the session would >be gravy. > I wish something similar to WSA existed as a z-based X11 client: write once, access almost anywhere. NFS has solved file sharing requirements nicely for me. On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 23:38:07 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> Does it have the same set of printable glyphs as IBM-037 or IBM-500? > >Yes, exactly. Those CPs, and quite a few more, such as 285, 273, etc. >encode what IBM calls Character Set (CS) 697. This CS (or Character >Repertoire in ISO terminology) is often called Latin-1, though Latin-1 >is also used to mean the ASCII-based encoding of CS 697, which is >IBM's CP 819. > >> What need impelled it? > >It's worth getting a copy of the SHARE ÆCS report to see what the >state of character encoding and standardization was like in 1989. > Is it available? Just curious. It's hard for me to imagine that the problem of a surfeit of code pages could be mitigated by adding one more. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
