On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:17:39 -0600, Joel C. Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also have been unable so far to find any on-line reference that >actually gives examples or names of established "standard" graphic >representations for the various codepoints in the EBCDIC codesets.
You can find the most common code pages at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp_cpgid.jsp The PDFs contained therein are copies of the Official Versions maintained by the IBM Globalization Centre of Competency for use by all IBM hardware and software. > I've >have been running of necessity under the assumption that there is some >standard and that IBM's PComm emulator would conform to it, but that is >probably a rash assumption. It's also quite possible (likely?) that >whatever standard exists may have left some codepoints undefined, and >that PComm could have implemented graphics for those codepoints that >differ from other 3270 emulators. IBM PCOMM implements code pages that conform to those you will find at the URL above. Those same code pages can be used by z/VM and z/OS TCP/IP apps for ASCII-EBCDIC translation. They are imbedded in LE, too, for use with iconv(). >This shows that by PComm's implementation of the codesets that, among >other differences, there is an interchange in the graphics for PL/1 >Logical not and the Circumflex or caret at codepoints X'5F' and X'B0' >between IBM-037-US and IBM-1047-US. It also shows that the differences >between IBM-924-Multinational and IBM-1047 are much more extensive than >just the Euro symbol, probably because there was no US-specific IBM-924 >variant (at least not in PComm 5.6). IBM-924 is the EBCDIC variant of ISO 8859-15 (IBM-923). There is no country-specific version of 924. >I believe REXX allows the slash alternative operators precisely because >translation with codesets like IBM-037 or IBM-1140 can cause syntax >problems and algorithm failure if the caret is used. About 10 years ago I have up on using Logical Not in favor of != or <>. Not only do those characters work in any code page, they always survive EBCDIC- ASCII translation (e.g. with FTP), and cut-n-paste always gives the correct result. Alan Altmark IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
