> > $ in US, or £ in UK code page, whether they look the same or not in hex, > > isn't the aim to find a special char that works in "all" code pages? > > There's a peculiar hazard in using the same code point to represent different > local currency symbols. > May I choose how to print my payment coupon?
Yes, so at least for me, I'm interpreting this as what "new" special character can we safely make a standard. Example: Many people use '$' as the first char in PDS/PDSE member names. What other special chars like it work, and can be reserved (for some other OS-specific purpose)? So it doesn't matter how it looks, but rather just a char that needs to exist in all the commonly used pages today. It wouldn't be too far fetched to expect IBM to do a customer survey to find out what code pages are out there and in active use... to then find a char that's present in most/all of them... to then anoint the char as a "new" special char that is going to be used for some project. - KB ------- Original Message ------- On Friday, July 7th, 2023 at 10:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 15:39:52 +0000, kekronbekron wrote: > > > I suppose... even if the char is different in different code pages, it is > > ok. > > Don't we just need some special char that's available in all known & used > > code pages? > > I extended Matt's test. The 3 national characters plus the 12 special > characters > in the JCL Ref. have identical code points in 037, 500, and 1047. > > The Ref. doesn't mention "037" anywhere. I suspect the authors are in denial > concerning the existence of other code pages. > > > $ in US, or £ in UK code page, whether they look the same or not in hex, > > isn't the aim to find a special char that works in "all" code pages? > > There's a peculiar hazard in using the same code point to represent different > local currency symbols. > May I choose how to print my payment coupon? > > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Thursday, July 6th, 2023 at 9:51 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > > > > I did some testing by creating a file in USS in CP047 with the characters > > > “@#$” and then used iconv to convert them to a variety of code pages and > > > compare the results. Some conversions failed but when looking at the code > > > pages that failed they didn’t appear to me to be what I would consider > > > mainstream. For the ones I’m familiar with they all converted correctly. > > > I'd take a neutral view and say "similarly" rather than "correctly". > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
