From: Dan Kogai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 07:42 , Paul Marquess wrote:
> > Dan, I'm not sure what is going on here. Can I walk through one of
> > the failing test to see if it rings any bells with you?
> 
> Before that I would like to make sure if I understand the scope of
> the problem correctly.  We are talking about the problem in EBCDIC
> platform, not DBM_Filter vs. Encode at alarge, right?

Correct. It's only EBCDIC

> I wrote a simple script and there seems no problem on ASCII platforms.
> 
> > SO I expect to get these k/v pairs back
> >
> >         'alpha' => "\xCE\xB1",
> >         'beta'  => "\xCE\xB2",
> >         "\xCE\xB3"=> "gamma",
> >
> > But this is what I actually read from the DBM file.
> >
> >      'beta' => '¸ž'
> >      'alpha' => '¸¨'
> >      '¸ß' => 'gamma'
> 
> 
> On ASCII platforms I got what you've expected.

Yep - it works fine on ASCII platforms and has done so for a few years.

> Sastry, would you clarify the problem a little bit more?  If that's
> the problem of Encode vs. EBCDIC, say so.  It occurs to me DBM_Filter
> is not guilty for this case.


Paul



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