On 8/29/25 16:17, Robert Raicer wrote: > I remember once upon a time (in the mid 1980's) creating a bit of an > embarrassment (resulting in the rapid production of a PTF) caused by > my naivety. I had written some code which produced console messages > (i.e., WTO's) in mixed case. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the > EBCDIC character codes for the lower case letters (0x81:0x89, > 0x91:0x99, 0xA2:0xA9) produced katakana graphics on an IBM 3278KN > SBCS terminal. So, when my code was executed on a customer's system > in Japan, the results were less than delightful. > ...
This likely relates to why the IBM standard had long been that console messages must be all upper case. Whether that was officially "removed" as an IBM standard or not, I never knew. But it is certainly the case that it is no longer followed. Peter Relson
