Hi
The following script yields different outputs on two different platforms
use Encode;
$string = "ravi";
$enc_string = encode("iso-8859-16", $string);
print "\n enc_string: $enc_string\n";
On EBCDIC platform like z/OS
The enc_string now contains: >ñ=Á whose codepoints are \x6E
\x49\x7E\x65 whereas on ASCII platform enc_string contains "ravi"
which is obvious as the invariant characters on any of the ISO-8859
codepages is same on ASCILL like platforms.
On EBCDIC the output should be \x72\x61\x76\x69. Please correct me if
I am wrong!
I am unable to figure out if there is a problem in encode module or
the enc2xs utility which generates the unicode character mapping
files.
I just happened to check the output of the files that gets generated
by using the enc2xs using the miniperl. They are
a)ext/Encode/Byte/byte_t.c
b)ext/Encode/def_t.c
These two files are different across two platforms (Linux, z/OS).
Should these files be specific to platform? If they are different,
please let me know how these encode tables are generated specific to
"platform"
Thanks in advance
Sastry
