In
<CAHm_n2=s4rn3mwbcfg63v22uardrvjc1-tc5dekc6j98njx...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 02/02/2012
at 08:14 AM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> said:
>Regarding the line end fiasco - our code handles line terminator
>separately, and we fix them up to avoid the dreaded ASCII NEL, which
>only an IBM architect would want :-)
There is no ASCII NEL. There is an NEL ('85'X) in the ISO 8859-x
character sets and in Unicode and there's an NL ('15'X) in EBCDIC.
EUnix uses the LF ('0A'X) as an end of line. Other systems use CR
('0D'X) and CRLF ('0D0A'X).
>The point of adding this particular table (the old
>STANDARD.TCPXLBIN) to Unicode Services is that there are rare
>customers who are dependent on the exact handling of "control
>character" conversions in that table, which the Unicode Services
>tables don't seem to provide a direct replacement for.
Code translation in OS/360 et all has always been a dog's breakfast
:-(
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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