<Whew> Another discussion "turned me on to" the use of NATIONAL characters in COBOL. Basically, from my reading, this is UTF-16BE with a CCSID of 1200. That got me to looking at CCSIDs in COBOL in general. Which lead me to the CODEPAGE() compile parameter.
Finally, to the question: If I am planning to inter-operate with C and/or UNIX, should I use CODEPAGE(1047) instead of the default of 1140 (which is CP-37 with Euro). I am thinking this would likely be necessary if I use some of the C language subroutines which deal with regular expressions. This is due to the "wrong" encoding of "[" "]" and others in CP-37. -- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
