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

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