On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:27:28 +0000, Lindy Mayfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > ISPF-L, no, MVS-OE list, yes. But since it's often a system wide setting > that IBM may or may not recommend, that’s why I chose IBM-Main first to ask. > It affect the entire machine, not just OMVS guys. > This motivates several questions:
o On editing a Classic file or a new or untagged UNIX file, should the programmer be allowed to select a CCSID? The only options at present are UTF-8 and ASCII (I assume this means ISO8859-1). o Should the default be the CCSID of the terminal? o Should it be possible to change the CCSID of the Edit session in progress? o When a new UNIX file is saved, should it automatically be tagged with the CCSID of the Edit session? o On a COPY of a file with a tagged CCSID different from the Edit session, what should happen? Should the COPY dialog allow the programmer to specify or override the file's CCSID? Edit does a very good job of dealing with a file CCSID different from the terminal's CCSID, for example 1208 and 1047. But if I change a character to (nondisplayable) x'00'; HEX OFF; FIND P'.'; Edit places the cursor at an incorrect location and tells me "x'20' found." That's a (displayable) ASCII blank that is present at that incorrect cursor location. UTF-8 introduces several varieties of "nondisplayable": o A valid UTF-8/Unicode representation of a character not in the terminal's repertoire. o A valid UTF-8 representation of an unassigned Unicode point. (How badly do we actually need a brontosaurus emoji!?) o An overlong UTF-8 code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Overlong_encodings o An undecipherable UTF-8 code. Should the diagnostics differentiate among these? > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Gilmartin > Sent: keskiviikkona 12. lokakuuta 2016 23.28 > Hmmm... You asked about Danish, but your Mail Agent seems to be speaking Finnish. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
