I general refer to them as PC code pages, except where the context limits it to ISO 8859 or Unicode.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 5:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Accented Names in EBCDIC -> ASCII On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:47:54 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >ASCII is 7 bits and does not include any of ō, ŏ, ő, ò, ó, ô, õ or ö, but many >PC and z/OS code pages do, including EBCDIC code pages. See >https://secure-web.cisco.com/1_gZ8PnakFXQ_fEpXFcoqXNjpd4TKQ72c1BrbBeuOarXkZ-4maNZk3znBBJhocSdT3sBVX1ZVCU1qld5FgVupVmkdiyqpjaLFKqFhOarm9usMWnn956cEDVunPTT3AXbeDKcbjOeIp2vTWdH6Q78Y8kcFktCB5rjKN8Omx3ridspZ2gCglIofr_-wc-CYXziqqKVBm9QyKsgH9fyi8To6rOXhHHVcr2OPPhbXxdE-Rm0AyCW8BRJdlmqNsBoGIqqbOpw-aj8D5tLDpth8W1GmlGJ2jamzrGglU1yoyEljNmXAM07F6TAT7q7c0qUa5awI6o3FkxEI3EIUaV_OBslLEzDlE6UOLih4YH9wvItfTYAFQP1CVvDoR9jNKmKpCggjM01GDm9aPcB5aENk8e4hggTYbCJ_7Xj19n-6vHrCBS-toUI3GKNQM1ZAY-qHN_mn/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEBCDIC_code_pages > and the articles for specific code pages linked to from there. > I accept that you're a pedant on this matter. But what convenient term do you prefer for those code pages that are (roughly) supersets of ASCII, such as ISO8859-xx? Perhaps ISO-Latin? Otherwise? https://secure-web.cisco.com/1cNQZ0uRUsfe4ZgB_GN7cJeaSfGlA13pgzRc741ZkUKtLkZvSXvTwRJyU6g2ctKXibfyYUrRKlTqUXZp23hf6Har4avVVg6o-TLd5_7Z2LimJ4KqFTOa8FAJWq6EIPGV-YqugKyh6RRsVrXHoq_mOf0AHVgfjRMUsrKUjbvFMRShF3qf2HOQoYVUPGHTOwAWs9jg18prRtWMn8A8ZXqvU5j_1oDY9C2yOriF2zcw5P2sA-DJl5Rp17yjdqEtX4p3FPg5nFmyi19lP4QigJ7rAEQHklCCG6I0L1Yn71eOvuTXZNLZ44Pzc5Tmp2HVsT4Pzhyv2fW65V6aeGjCA4KOPQY34QcW_XUWRfcnBm0G6gBlYQUi_lmHBxaLNoJUcbtmoKk-4iIIqUXYo8f7aZCwHeyNSLpxgOeTle8ki7SSNQjaD-gLZNzgz3lZs5y-_6hBB/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.terena.org%2Factivities%2Fmultiling%2Fml-docs%2Fiso-8859.html -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
