On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:32:43 -0800, retired mainframer wrote: >:>: >:>: ISO 8859-1[1] is Latin 1, not ASCII. > >From the UNIX Systems Services Command Reference: " BPXFX311. Specifies an >ASCII-EBCDIC conversion table to convert between code pages ISO8859-1 and >IBM-1047." > >It doesn't matter what the official title of ISO 8859-1 is. For getting >OCOPY to perform the desired conversion, it only matters that IBM uses it to >mean to ASCII. > Well, Shmuel, pedantically and characteristically, is insisting that "ASCII" means precisely a 7-bit character set (even as USS does not mean UNIX System Services).
But, is there a convenient alternative collective term designating those 8-bit character sets in which 'A' is 0x41; '0' is 0x30, etc.? Perhaps Shmuel can, in a more constructive mode, suggest one. Does ISO Latin include ISO8859-x (and some Windows-peculiar character sets) and exclude IBM-1047? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
