On 2019-04-21 21:39, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
To me "left slash" is unfamiliar terminology -- I've always heard these
two characters called slash ("/"), which is hex 61, and backward slash
("\") , which is hex E0.
No, the backslash is not part of the EBCDIC invariant set. Counter examples are
CP278, used(?) in Sweden and Finland, CP280, used(?) in Italian, which
completely lacks a backslash, and CP297, the one used(?) in France. There are
more, see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_code_pages>
Robert
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I would have made the same assumption as Mike that the backward slash
was the one intended, as it is of more recent vintage -- absent from
actual QWERTY typewriters and pre-8-bit digital character codes.
In left-to-right, top-to-bottom text orientation, I guess you could
describe "\" as starting on the "left"; but I find it easier to think of
it as "backward" from the only slash that was ever widely used by the
masses prior to the introduction of the PC to mainstream culture.
Joel C Ewing
On 4/21/19 5:57 AM, Beesley, Paul wrote:
Isn't it x'61'?
Regards and thanks
Paul
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Peter
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:59 AM
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Subject: Hex value for left slash EBCDIC
Hi
I am not getting left slash in z/OS.
Is there a Equavalent hex value for left slash in zOS ?
I am struggling to get a UCM(universal character map) to zOS with the left
slash in it.
Any suggestions ?
Peter
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