On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:53:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

>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.
> 
How much of that does autoconversion fail to do?

-- gil

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