On Sun, 16 May 2021 10:26:25 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > ... >https://www.lbdsoftware.com/XMITIP-Guide.pdf > Note that all data on the mainframe is stored in the EBCDIC character set > and is translated to the ASCII character set during the transmission. > Any data that should not be translated should be attached in Binary format. > (More): o Note that since EBCDIC is a 256-character set and ASCII is 128, there is inevitable loss of information. o It doesn't specify *which* EBCDIC character set (there are many, not "the".)
>Possibly: iconv -f IBM-420 -t UTF-8 >Then transmit as FORMAT BINary. > >You might yet be frustrated because IBM mainframes (I believe) >store Arabic, etc. text backwards. On Sun, 16 May 2021 09:06:10 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >Terminology Clarification: UTF-8 is of course just one representation >of the Unicode codeset, not the codeset itself. UTF-8 has the advantage >that characters in standard ASCII charset have identical byte >representation in UTF-8, which makes possible some use of UTF-8 even in >email headers. > Use of encoded non-ASCII characters in headers requires considerable gyrations. See section 2 of RFC 2047. The IBM-MAIN LISTSERV is not RFC 2047 savvy. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
