In <aanlkti=29p26ome3vbcev6ldfhu-jpwd09cv5sgxt...@mail.gmail.com>, on 11/30/2010 at 09:57 PM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> said:
>Here is an idea to bounce around. z/OS Unix System Services does a >lot of work converting ASCII to EBCDIC and back. z/Linux works all >in ASCII. I doubt it. >Could we do some sort of Unicode translation? We already do. >Have GPR2 point to a memory area that >indicates how many bytes per digit, then the 10 characters for 0-9? Why introduce a lot of unnecessary complexity for something that can be done easily. The existing instructions are perfectly adequate for dealing with decimal data in Unicode. >Would we want the number of digits? Doing arithmetic in arbitrary baes is a different issue than doing decimal arithmetic in arbitrary character sets. Silly wabbit, trits are for kids! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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