Somebody pointed out today that a mass purge of Wikipedia EBCDIC code
page articles was done in July (with a move to Wikibooks begun but not
finished). For the most part, the objection was that they simply
reproduced information from primary sources. 037-2 seems like an
exception, unacknowledged
As I recall (and this was a hot topic for me and others around 1990,
especially at the SHARE conference) "CP 37 v2" was what customers called
the corrected version of Codepage 37.
Codepage 37 was an excellent attempt by IBM to capture standard practice
at the time (in the US) along with full align
On 9/15/2020 6:08 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
> Same then goes for the square brackets (and their mis-mapped
> counterparts). IBM introduced Codepage 1047 which GETS BRACKETS RIGHT. I
> forget, as I write this, if CP 1047 gets not/circumflex right and I'm
> having trouble pulling the codepages out of Wik
[headslap]
The light goes on slowly.
So this "purge" was broad brush.
I'm not a "wikipedian", just a heavy use, and regular supporter. (IF
THAT MATTERS)
Rule #1, don't break stuff.
I thought I must be doing something wrong that I can no longer find
pages like "EBCDIC_1047". But maybe those are par
On 2020-09-15, at 16:08:08, Rick Troth wrote:
>
> Same then goes for the square brackets (and their mis-mapped
> counterparts). IBM introduced Codepage 1047 which GETS BRACKETS RIGHT. I
> forget, as I write this, if CP 1047 gets not/circumflex right and I'm
> having trouble pulling the codepages ou
