Hi Matt, I suppose... even if the char is different in different code pages, it is ok. Don't we just need some special char that's available in all known & used code pages?
$ in US, or £ in UK code page, whether they look the same or not in hex, isn't the aim to find a special char that works in "all" code pages? - KB ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, July 6th, 2023 at 9:51 PM, Matt Hogstrom <m...@hogstrom.org> wrote: > The original question was posed on StackOverflow here > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76569347/what-are-the-supported-code-points-for-special-characters-for-valid-z-os-datas > > There is a whole set of answers (opinions) on the subject. > > I did some testing by creating a file in USS in CP047 with the characters > “@#$” and then used iconv to convert them to a variety of code pages and > compare the results. Some conversions failed but when looking at the code > pages that failed they didn’t appear to me to be what I would consider > mainstream. For the ones I’m familiar with they all converted correctly. > > The command was 'iconv -f 1047 -t 37 special > converted;chtag -t -c 37 > converted;cmp special converted’ I changed to the encoding of 37 to other > code pages and most worked fine. You can find the list of cps supported by > issuing 'iconv -l’ and there are a lot of them. > > > Thanks for your comments and feedback. Always interesting how a thread will > go on such a topic as this. > > Matt Hogstrom > > “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." > — Hogstrom > > > > On Jul 5, 2023, at 3:00 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > All JCL is CP-037. This predates any idea of code pages in the OS. The JCL > > converter/interpreter only works with that encoding. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
