A search for UTF-EBCDIC on the IETF web page got no hits, so regardless of its status at the Unicode Consortium, it doesn't seem to have gotten traction other than instructions on IBM Z.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Harminc [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2022 4:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM python documentation? On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 13:40, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > There *was* something called UTF-EBCDIC, but IBM and UNICODE seem to have abandoned it shortly after it was written. https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funicode.org%2Freports%2Ftr16%2Ftr16-7.2.html&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7Ca2c2238aeb204b8fe97608daa3ea7a81%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638002524732265567%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yrqEKpQ56BgWULVPg97g9YcVo2woJYWyacKHooC8UfA%3D&reserved=0 I've never understood why there was so little interest shown in it; it seemed to me to fill the bill very nicely. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
