> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of P S > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:37 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: CAPS Fantasia (was: argv for z/OS C++ batch) > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:28 PM, McKown, John > <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > > wrote: > > > You're right it is not really insensitive. The lower case > appears before > > the upper case of a given character. I.e. "apple" is before > "Apple". My bad > > terminology. I guess the order is aAbBcCdD and so on. > > > > While we're fantasizing (boy, are WE geeks!), that would have been an > interesting way for the characters to have been ordered in > ASCII or EBCDIC > ... think of how differently we might have done things! Of > course, ORing > with x'40' to uppercase wouldn't work any more. But I guess > you could OR > with x'01' instead, no? Or AND with x'FE' to lowercase? Hmm... > > /me wanders off to tinker with the time machine again; maybe > this time it > will work!
If you get that time machine running, introduce UTF-8 instead of either plain ASCII or EBCDIC. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
