(z/OS 1.10) Motivatted by a thread in ASSEMBLER-LIST, I scanned
/usr/lib/nls/charmap/IBM-1047 looking for matching character
names in /usr/lib/nls/charmap/UTF-8. (I used regular expressions.)
I found 186 IBM-1047 code points that have no matching names in
UTF-8. I think this is pretty astonishing/dismaying. Shouldn't
every IBM-1047 character have a UTF-8 mapping? (Or am I just
looking at the wrong charmap?)
A few examples:
...
/x7c Not found: <commercial-at> /x7c
/x7d Not found: <apostrophe> /x7d
/x7e Not found: <equals-sign> /x7e
/x7f Not found: <quotation-mark> /x7f
/x80 Not found: <O-slash> /x80
/x8a Not found: <left-angle-quotes> /x8a
/x8b Not found: <right-angle-quotes> /x8b
/x8c Not found: <eth> /x8c
/x8d Not found: <y-acute> /x8d
/x8e Not found: <thorn> /x8e
/x8f Not found: <plus-minus> /x8f
/x90 Not found: <degree> /x90
/x9a Not found: <feminine> /x9a
/x9b Not found: <masculine> /x9b
/x9c Not found: <ae> /x9c
/x9d Not found: <cedilla> /x9d
/x9e Not found: <AE> /x9e
/x9f Not found: <currency> /x9f
/xa0 Not found: <mu> /xa0
/xa1 Not found: <tilde> /xa1
/xaa Not found: <exclamation-down> /xaa
/xab Not found: <question-down> /xab
/xac Not found: <Eth> /xac
/xad Not found: <left-square-bracket> /xad
/xae Not found: <Thorn> /xae
...
(/usr/lib/nls/charmap/ISO8859-1 shows zero such deficiencies, and
I had thought that IBM-1047 was supposed to be a one-for-one
translation of ISO8859-1.)
(I might take this over to MVS-OE, also.)
-- gil
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