>>If for some odd reason you absolutely insist on an EBCDIC-ish approach then >>you can do what the Japanese have done for decades: Shift Out (SO), Shift >>In (SI). Refer to CCSID 930 and CCSID 1390 for inspiration. You'd probably >>use one of the EBCDIC Latin 1+euro codepages as a starting point, such as >>1140, then SO/SI from there to pick up the exceptional characters. >> >The worst of both worlds.
It's repeating history. The origin of all that code page mess was companies (not countries at that time) starting to build their own custom code page for any character in need that was not in the (single) EBCDIC code page. Later, some standardization was done and country code pages evolved. While is was justifiable at that time, it is not today. Do not start this mess again by doing your own code page thing in your programs. Go Unicode, UTF-8 or UTF-16, whatever suits best. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
