Jay Maynard wrote: >OK, so what kind of issues are there with UTF-8? Especially since it's >pretty much the standard everywhere, these days?
Yeah, that caught my eye too. I suspect the answer is that *mixing* UTF-8 and EBCDIC gets complicated because you cannot always convert: e.g., if you have <Greek character><Cyrillic character> in the same string, UTF-anything can handle it, but you cannot convert that string to EBCDIC because those two characters are in different EBCDIC code pages. Combine that with UTF-8 normalization and variable-length characters and it's bewildering for EBCDIC-based minds. This does NOT really reflect deficiencies in UTF-8 but rather just difficulties switching between EBCDIC and UTF-8. ISO8859-1 is cleaner (for cases where it's sufficient!) because it CAN map 1:1 to EBCDIC. Of course it's not sufficient in many, many cases in a global economy. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
