Hi,
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.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing -- Unicode did not exist when I wrote Rexx.
However, existing Rexx implelementations could (for example) allow 'options
unicode' to switch on Unicode support. But there are some tricky areas, such as
the functions that assume fixed-width characters.
Or you could try NetRexx, which is fully Unicode-enabled.
Best regards add THANK YOU for REXX
You're welcome.
Mike
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