On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:50:33 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:

>Thanks Clark, those are good resources to know about.  Definitely worth 
>bookmarks.
> 
+1
But I'm slightly confused.  The linked page, <http://ccsids.net/ccsids.html>, 
shows:
o CCSID 1208 – UTF-8 with IBM PUA – UTF-8
o CCSID 1209 – UTF-8 – UTF-8

I thought it was vice-versa -- 1208 without; 1209 with.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  Clark Morris
>Sent: Friday, February 25, 2022 4:34 PM
>
>This showed up on bit.listserv.ibm-main and I think it would be of general 
>interest.  This is cc-ed to the original poster including the normal IBM-MAIN 
>boiler plate.


>On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 01:39:07 -0800 (PST), 
> "[email protected]"  wrote:
>
>>Who is responsible for this website?
>>
>>http://ccsids.net/
>>
>>Whoever it is, I'd like to say, "Thanks!".
>>
>>From that site:
>>
>>> [for the] sake of preservation of what I feel is important information in 
>>> the public interest.?I do not work for IBM, and have not ever worked for 
>>> IBM as of the time of writing.
>>
>>There are files on that site that used to be published on the now-defunct IBM 
>>Globalization site.
>>
>>I also want to thank whoever (same person?) put those files on this public 
>>FTP site:
>>
>>http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/
>>
>>Numerous topics in IBM Docs cite numeric character set identifiers. For 
>>example, the z/OS 2.5 topic "Creating ISPF code page translation tables":
>>
>>https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=dm-creating-ispf-code-page-translation-tables
>>
>>But I can't find any docs still published by IBM that describe those 
>>character sets. So, as far as IBM-published docs are concerned, those numeric 
>>character set identifiers are "opaque": not (or no longer) backed by 
>>IBM-published reference tables that describe what characters are in each set.
>>
>>Am I wrong about this? Does IBM still publish this information somewhere 
>>else? For example, can anyone point me to an ibm.com URL for the following 
>>table of characters in the character set 697:
>>
>>http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CS00697.txt
>>
>>Graham Hannington

-- 
gil

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