On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:06:35 +0000, Edward Finnell < wrote: >Guess I don't see the reasoning. IBM has had DBCS for decades. > >http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27004197&aid=1In ITYM: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27004197&aid=1
UTF-8 has enormous compatibility with ASCII. IBM DBCS has such compatibility neither with EBCDIC nor with ASCII. On Linux or MacOS I can code C source programs or shell scripts alike in ASCII or UTF-8. Can COBOL or HLASM source, or JCL be DBCS? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
