In <[email protected]>, on
01/31/2013
at 11:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>I understand this is partly a consequence of a conflict between
>Unicode and EBCDIC. Any hope of building a more recent Perl in
>Enhanced ASCII mode and relying somewhat on autoconversion?
That would be viable for Linux on z, and perhaps for z/OS Unix, but I
doubt that it's an option for classic z/OS. Unless someone spends the
money to make a current Perl play nice with EBCDIC, z/OS won't look
reasonable to Perl developers.
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