Mike,
I worked for IBM during 40 years and during the last 2 decades I used REXX on
MVS, VM and my ThinkPad.
I must confess that the bigest problem I ever encountered between the various
platformes has always been the caracter set.
Just thik of a PC set up in french, and OORexx set in english...
Imagine issuing DOS command such as dir C: /-C /O:G /S > one_temp and
exploiting the output with Rexx. You need a lot of translates and NO translate
work for carcaters such a minus (-) in a file name...
So Please, Please, find a circumvention to unify the caraceter set.
Best regards add THANK YOU for REXX
Jacques Bouchard
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De : Mike Cowlishaw <m...@speleotrove.com>
À : Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List <oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Envoyé le : Mar 15 février 2011, 20h 33min 03s
Objet : Re: [Oorexx-devel] Unicode coming into ooRexx' way ...
Also, there are some things that break in Java programs when there are
presuppositions on the character set being ASCII, and it turns out to be
EBCDIC.
One goal could be to support Unicode the way Java does; another goal could be
to
go beyond Java and solve the latter case: that would be truly a solution in the
spirit of the Rexx language.
Given that the NetRexx compiler runs on EBCDIC machines from binaries, I think
the Java folk really did a pretty good piece of design (and in 199x). However
it is always possible to write programs that are presuppose ASCII or
EBCDIC (for
example, uppercasing by changing a specific bit in a character encoding).
Languages won't solve that except by prohibiting meddling with the bits of a
character (perhaps the right thing to do -- but then the language is no longer
'general purpose'?).
In the case of NetRexx that's all rather academic at the moment; it is dead
until RexxLA takes it over. Any progress on that?
Mike
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