Re: Code pages (was: Square Brackets in Java?)

2007-12-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/03/2007 at 10:35 AM, "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Once again, the character seen in your post depends on the >codepage used to display it. His messages include Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed If you're using a MIME-c

Re: Code pages

2007-12-09 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
ferent code points in different code pages. It's at X'5A' in CP037/CP1140, CP1047 (and more) but is at X'4F' in CP500/CP1148 and CP273/CP1141. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Code pages

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Altmark
desets. You can find the most common code pages at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp_cpgid.jsp The PDFs contained therein are copies of the Official Versions maintained by the IBM Globalization Centre of Competency for use by all IBM hardware and software. > I've >

Re: Code pages

2007-12-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Joel C. Ewing wrote: [snip it all] Joel, Here's a few links I've found helpful: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/globalization/codepages.html http://www.tachyonsoft.com/cpindex.htm http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html http:

Re: Code pages (was: Square Brackets in Java?)

2007-12-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:07:06 -0600, Joel C. Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. I notice your table doesn't mention the "¬" encoding differences between IBM-1140 and IBM-1047, but perhaps that character wasn't relevant in the context of that discussion. ... Once ag

Code pages (was: Square Brackets in Java?)

2007-12-03 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:07:06 -0600, Joel C. Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >.. >I notice your table doesn't mention the "¬" encoding differences between >IBM-1140 and IBM-1047, but perhaps that character wasn't relevant in the >context of that discussion. >... Once again, the character seen i

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages? (wrapup)

2006-06-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/14/2006 at 01:17 PM, Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >All these CECPs, btw, are restricted to 190 displayable characters, >for compatibility with the 3270 architecture. You're overlooking GE sequences. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/14/2006 at 07:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: >> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:41:43 -0300 >> >> Whcih square brackets issue? There's more than one. >> >That's mostly the issue. So how do y

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages? (wrapup)

2006-06-14 Thread Tony Harminc
Paul Gilmartin wrote: > It is my understanding that 1047 was created in response to a > user Requirement to be congruent to 8859-1. I'm not quite sure what you mean by congruent, but 1047, 037, 500, and many of those other Country Extended Code Pages (CECPs) used in France, the UK, G

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages? (wrapup)

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, David Cole said: > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:41:17 -0400 > >- Third, most character sets are not congruent (although [as Tony > Harminc points out] 1047 and 8859-1 might be, I haven't yet had time > to examine them thoroughly). Generally, each set will have character

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages? (wrapup)

2006-06-14 Thread David Cole
com/cpindex.htm with lots of code pages for translation. Thank You Alex! And thanks to you as well, Dave Bond. This link is a thorough description of a very large number of code pages, completely cross referenced my individual characters. It is a wonderful resource, and I want to thank Dave Bond

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-14 Thread R.S.
CP852 for MS-DOS based systems and printers Mazovia for some MS-DOS based systems and printers CP1250 for MS Windows systems ISO8859-2 for Unixes and Internet application (i.e. HTML, mailing). CP870 (EBCDIC) for mainframe sometimes CP1047 for C programming on mainframe. We use *all* of the codepa

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:41:43 -0300 > > Whcih square brackets issue? There's more than one. > That's mostly the issue. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/13/2006 at 01:45 PM, Kirk Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >"88591" - ISO-8859-1 Obsolete; there's a new series of 8859 Latin-x character sets to incorporate the Euro. As I recall, the replacement for Latin-1 (8859-1) is 8859-15. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/13/2006 at 01:38 PM, David Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Complete reversibility doesn't matter. To you. But if you're asking for what others prefer, then you have to accept what matters to them as part of their answer. >But both th

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/13/2006 at 12:02 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Many people here (including me) use 1047 (Latin-1/Open Systems) on >the mainframe. This addresses the "square brackets" issues. Whcih square brackets issue? There's more than one. -- Shmuel (Sey

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-14 Thread Flint, Mike
converted from 1146. Mike Flint, Systems Consultant, Experian. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Cole Sent: 13 June 2006 18:39 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages? Hi, Trying to

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread Tony Harminc
David Cole wrote: > Complete reversibility doesn't matter. I need to reverse > translate only those characters mutually defined to both code > pages. Everything else can just go to ... well ... nulls, > periods, blanks, whatever. Not having reversible tables is almost always

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Kirk wrote: >We'll have to wait for the votes to know the results, but >in the meantime you might want to look at Cp1047 (aka IBM-1047; Latin >Ebcdic US) for >taming those nasty brackets and braces :-) >>I tried 1047 first and ran into some problems, although they escape me at this point (wi

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread Edward Jaffe
David Cole wrote: So, what are your favorite code pages? Or is that too restrictive a question. Should I be asking, what are your favorite translations? Many people here (including me) use 1047 (Latin-1/Open Systems) on the mainframe. This addresses the "square brackets" issues. -

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Kirk wrote: >We'll have to wait for the votes to know the results, but >in the meantime you might want to look at Cp1047 (aka IBM-1047; Latin >Ebcdic US) for >taming those nasty brackets and braces :-) I tried 1047 first and ran into some problems, although they escape me at this point (will

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
I've set up a call-in line where you can vote for your favorite codepage from your cell phone. Just "text" the number 1-900-QCODEPG with your vote: "88591" - ISO-8859-1 "1252" - Cp1252 "1047" - Cp1047 "037" - Cp037 "8838" - UTF-8 ...etc We'll have to wait for the votes to know t

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread john gilmore
I'm not sure that your problem formulation is entirely adequate. You make the point that you have little interest in diacritically marked vowels, because you're a [monoglot] American; but you want to have '?' and '¿' available, and the chief use of the second of this pair is in Spanish text, w

Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
David Cole wrote: >Trying to come up with a "decent" (whatever that means) EBCDIC to >ASCII translation is a bit like trying to decide the length of the >coastline of Maine. It's all a matter of opinion. >So... I am asking your opinions ... I ran into some conversion annoyances when I sent da

What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

2006-06-13 Thread David Cole
te the mutually defined characters of the 037 code page (one of the EBCDIC code pages) into the corresponding characters of the 437 code page ("MS-DOS ASCII"). But both those code pages include a lot alphabetics with various diacritical marks, and being an American, I don't need