On 29/11/2016 9:18 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:40:11 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
ISPF does surprisingly well with UNIX files tagged UTF-8.
Agreed. IMO, ISPF has very good support for z/OS UNIX now. I spend most
of my time in a shell but ISPF sure beats
using the midnight command port which has weird key bindings.
It displays
characters in the terminal's particular code page and considers others
"nondisplayable". (But I still need to submit an SR on how badly
"FIND P'.'" performs on such characters.)
I also wish the ISPF editor supported syntax highlighting for UTF-8
files and browse also supported ASCII.
FWIW, Rocket have a z/OS git port which is in pre-release beta
http://forum.rocketsoftware.com/t/git-for-z-os-is-now-available-in-pre-release-beta/408.
It uses
enhanced ASCII and file tags to very good effect. IMO it's one of the
most useful open source software ports for many years. I'm currently
working on a project which
has z/OS compenents written in HLASM, C++ and Java and the browser based
UI code written in Javascript (Angular.js, HTML5 etc). We use a private
repo on github
and it's just fantastic to be able to use the same SCM for all our
development. When you clone a repo from github z/OS git tags the files
as ISO8859-1. Enhanced ASCII is working very well so far.
I haven't tried UTF-8 with a MBCS 3270. Are there such? I don't
believe I have access to one.
UTF-8 is the modal text representation for desktop systems and WWW.
There ought to be little need to use other character sets.
-- gil
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