On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 11:37:12 +1000, Attila Fogarasi wrote: >Codepage 1047 is obsolete, superceded by 942. Since this is mainframe, it >remains supported "forever". Euro did not exist at the time 1047 and 037 > Submit an R^HIdea that OMVS, HLASM, PL/I, XLC, REXX, and JCL support it; not only for data but for program source code.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_942> Looks closer to ASCII than not, but backslash is replaced by Yen. OK if you don't care about POSIX. This doesn't solve the problem; it aggravates it. AYFK!? >and 037-2 were created. That is one reason that 942 was created, with Euro >symbol amongst other changes. My suspicion is that the tangled codepage >history has to do with the multiple conflicting divisions at IBM with >printers, PCs, S/3x, 8100 and Series/1 all intersecting on codepage in >various ways. Most likely all divisions had veto power over codepage >standards. This is all ancient history and not relevant in the past 20 >years, but we have the legacy of strange codepage sets (and hundreds of >them) to deal with. The politicized ISO standards at the time did not help >matters. Eventually the answer became Unicode -- and look how that has >struggled for 20+ years to become the standard. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
