On 2014-01-13, at 10:30, John Gilmore wrote: > I have said it before, and I really should not need to say it again. > The HLASM's BYTE bif addresses these problems. > Let me see if I understand this. I might code:
&LB SETC BYTE(186) &RB SETC BYTE(187) BS DC CA'&LB.bracketed string&RB' I suppose, only a moderate PITA. Much trickier if there's a character in ISO-8859-1 with no equivalent in IBM-037. (Is there such? I understand that IBM-1047 was a response to a Requirement for a code page that was bijective with ISO-8859-1.) -- gil
