All code pages are equal, but some are more equal than others. You can faithfully convert between a Unicode string containing only characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 blocks and an ISO 8859-1 string. Whether using iconv under the covers is a viable option is a separate question.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Andrew Rowley [and...@blackhillsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 12:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Python 3.11 on z/OS - UTF-8 errors On 13/07/2023 1:59 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: > UTF-8 is just an encoding of Unicode; not a character set. All of ISO-8859-1 > is part of Unicode. Yes, but the code is stored in git as UTF-8 and defined as UTF-8 when working on other platforms. You can specify the zos-working-tree-encoding is ISO-8859-1... it seems like this conversion could cause problems. Alternatively, zos-working-tree-encoding of UTF-8 presumably transfers the data without conversion, but it sounds like some programs have problems using it? Normally, I think I want IBM-1047 which has the same potential conversion issues to/from git... you just have to be careful editing on other platforms. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
