Without commenting on UTF-EBCDIC, I think I can answer: > What need does UTF-8 address?
Fitting the BMP (plus) into as little space as possible. Now, in this modren world of large storage devices and high bandwidth, it's not clear that UTF-8 is worth the hassle--but it's entrenched, which makes it important. Or at least here to stay. Personally, I think UTF-16 would make life easier in many, many cases. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 5:06 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Is HLASM efficient WAS: Telum and SpyreWAS: Vector instruction performance On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 16:42, Paul Gilmartin < 00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > On 8/26/25 11:59, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> ... > > Seems like a perfect use case for the much derided UTF-EBCDIC. > > ... > What need would that address? > It would provide compatibility with APIs that allow EBCDIC characters, as UTF-8 does in the ASCII world. What need does UTF-8 address? Tony H.
