On 23 September 2013 20:18, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:56:46 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>>There is actually a "Unicode EBCDIC" (UTF-EBCDIC) but it's pretty obscure. >> > Not as obscure as it deserves to be. Never miss a chance on this one, do you Gil... As you know, I think UTF-EBCDIC was a great idea, and can't understand how it failed to catch on. Maybe there's just not much call for invoking legacy interfaces on the IBM zArch OSs with new data. Or perhaps UNIX programmers are lazier. Or something... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN