In <[email protected]>, on
11/30/2010
at 09:57 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:
>Here is an idea to bounce around. z/OS Unix System Services does a
>lot of work converting ASCII to EBCDIC and back. z/Linux works all
>in ASCII.
I doubt it.
>Could we do some sort of Unicode translation?
We already do.
>Have GPR2 point to a memory area that
>indicates how many bytes per digit, then the 10 characters for 0-9?
Why introduce a lot of unnecessary complexity for something that can
be done easily. The existing instructions are perfectly adequate for
dealing with decimal data in Unicode.
>Would we want the number of digits?
Doing arithmetic in arbitrary baes is a different issue than doing
decimal arithmetic in arbitrary character sets.
Silly wabbit, trits are for kids!
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