On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:09:44 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>>(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.)
>
>Use [ -] instead of [-]. Use the i flag, e.g.,
>
>/commercial[ -]at/i
>
...
>
>>/x80 Not found: <O-slash> /x80
>
>"LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE"
>
>"LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O SLASH"
>
>>/x8a Not found: <left-angle-quotes> /x8a
>
>"LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK"
>
>"LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET"
>
The question isn't whether the IBM-1047 glyphs exist in
UTF-8, but whether it's possible to perform the lookup
mechanically. Your suggestions require artificial
intelligence since it appears no natural intelligence
was applied in coding the charmaps.
...
>
>>/xa1 Not found: <tilde> /xa1
>
>"TILDE"
>
And the search must be case-sensitive, since "<a>" and
"<A>" are used elsewhere to represent different characters.
-- gil
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