In article <8790842028980392.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 22:44:19 -0500, Don Poitras wrote:
> >As of z/OS 2.1, ISPF supports UTF-8, so a binary transfer will still show an > >A if it > >was an A on the PC. ... > > > Does this support both UNIX and legacy files? If the latter, does it > require RECFM=V? Using a variable-length character encoding in > fixed length records seems pretty inconsistent. Yes. No. The same issue was true of DBCS which they've supported for years. I had a test case when I was converting CONDOR to use DBCS that caused a PROG error under ISPF, but I made sure CONDOR did something reasonable with it. > How does it report invalid UTF-8 byte sequences? It doesn't. > Does it still automatically switch to CAPS ON? What does it > recognize as majuscule or minuscule with CAPS ON in Cyrillic > characters, e.g.? Actually, it looks as though they have a bug with this. If I save a member with all caps, the next time I come in it says CAPS on was turned off because I have lower case characters. I don't have an emulator that will display or enter Cyrillic characters. > >I don't know which emulators will show all the other bazillion > >glyphs though... > > > Indeed. Emulators? What about hardware for the emulators to > emulate? Or does it require WSA? I don't know which hardware will display all the glyphs either. The only foreign 3270 I ever used was Korean. It had some funny keys and you had to type in several for each DBCS character. > What representation does it use in the 3270 data streams? Is > this well documented in the Data Streams reference? What must > it do to avoid embedded 3270 command bytes? Is this compatible > with Yale/7271/IND$FILE/Kermit conventions? As far as 3270 goes, I think it's just going to us the CODEPAGE and CHARSET you start ISPF with. I think it's going to be limited to the set of EBCDIC code pages. As this is the first release, I'm sure there's stuff missing that will be added as time goes by. > -- gil -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
