It was never clear to me why the term "national" was picked in the first place. Although I worked for Volvo 14 years (jag Verkade på Volvo Lastvagnar fyrtio år) and on the Swedish side those keys produced characters in the Swedish alphabet - I don't remember which ones exactly, but probably something like Ä, Å and Ö.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Vegetables aren't food. Vegetables are what food eats. -from Shoe, 1999-10-08 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 08:05 The ID (now CDD) folks had years ago made us refer to @,$,# as "special characters" rather than as "national characters". It is disappointing that they did not change the publications to be consistent with that directive. By all means point out the discrepancies that you spot. I'll bet that any change would be from "national" to "special" (not the other way around). I have no idea what term they will decide to use for the JCL characters that they currently call special. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
