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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
