Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow. Are you actually using such mainframes to run GNU applications? I > thought that, these days, most of those people were running in ASCII (or > Latin-1 or UTF-8) mode, even on mainframes.
There's at least an active community of people who ported Perl to EBCDIC and continue to maintain it, apparently because they're using it regularly. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>