On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:24:01 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >ASCII is a subset of Unicode, and UTF-8 preserves all octets from 0 to 127, >including the control characters. > Water is wet.
>________________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:55 PM > >On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 07:15:55 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >>>>>> >>>>> Have you played with Vim ":set fileencoding=..."? It works >>>>> splendidly on Linux. >>> It might be useful for generating tests or with such as: >>> : w ! iconv -f IBM-1047 -t UTF-8 >codes >> >>I just tried it and it works. Rockets Vim port is surprisingly good. We >>also have emacs and a lot of our young guys use that. I like Vim because >>it's the default editor on *nix sysems and it's always there. >> >Which did you try? :set fileencoding= or : w ! iconv -f IBM-1047 -t UTF-8? >The latter is outside Vim's control, of course. > >>I couldn't imagine using ISPF to edit Unix files but customers do it >>which is why I'm researching this EBCDIC issue. >> >UNIX or CKD; if they're IBM-1047, ISPF is in its element. > >>I would avoid tagging files UTF-8. For text conversion to work in the >>shell you need to set _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ALL, at which point almost all >>programs that use enhanced ASCII >>will break. That includes Python, Git, all of Rockets ported tools suite! >> >The important part of USASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so not much >might break. I once ran a UTF-8 file through "iconv -f ISO859-1 -t IBM-1047". >z/OS server undid the translation and it appeared intact on my >UTF-8 desktop. > >Vim might operate similarly with autoconversion. What is Vim's internal >character set? On either Linux or Mac it's very UTF-8 savvy. In a >string such as " a�z " the l and h commands move one character, not >one octet. But field width specifications such as for printf() count >octets, not characters. Ugh! > >And while Linux Vim lets me write a buffer in IBM-1047, it doesn't >work to re-edit it -- I have to iconv it to UTF-8 before editing. Is >there a technique I don't know? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
