On 5 September 2017 at 10:30, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote:
> > If for some odd reason you absolutely insist on an EBCDIC-ish approach then > you can do what the Japanese have done for decades: Shift Out (SO), Shift > In (SI). Refer to CCSID 930 and CCSID 1390 for inspiration. You'd probably > use one of the EBCDIC Latin 1+euro codepages as a starting point, such as > 1140, then SO/SI from there to pick up the exceptional characters. > Another EBCDIC-ish approach would be UTF-EBCDIC. This is fully support by z/OS Unicode conversion services; perhaps PL/I (and other things) should make it Just Work under the covers. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN