I think Attila meant code page 924
On 7/7/2023 7:52 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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Codepage 1047 is obsolete, superceded by 942.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.
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