I have had a thought on this. For my UNIX resident HLASM source code (which
implements UNIX commands & is LE enabled), I use FLOWASM to make it easier
on me. Because I actually do occassionally use the UNIX vi editor for HLASM
code (stop upchucking!). With FLOWASM, the HLASM source code is dynamically
reformatted to be acceptable to HLASM despite not being the the proper
columns. I can envision the possibility of modifying FLOWASM, to use TR, or
maybe even iconv, to set up a conversion operation. FLOWASM could implement
something like PCONTROL CODEPAGE("iconv code page name"). It would then
load a table (via iconv or UNICODE SERVICES?) which would convert the
"iconv code page" to CP-037. Of course, this assumes that there is such a
conversion registered for use (for UNICODE SERVICES, this means in the
loaded UNICODE table)What are the thoughts of the plebiscite? On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:35 AM, John McKown <[email protected]>wrote: > I had never considered this until Gil posted his problem with DC CA'[]' > where the [] characters are the IBM-1047 code points for those glyphs > instead of the CP-037 code points. I have the same problem . I have set my > 3270 emulator to "Latin1", or IBM-1047, so that I can use OMVS and have use > some special characters such as: {, }, [, and ]. which UNIX expects in the > IBM-1047 character set, not the CP-037. Now, the C language can accept > multiple code sets if the program is separated into multiple input files > which contain a #pragma filetag("..codeset.."). Thinking on this, I wonder > if it would be helpful to be able to specify a different code page, perhaps > dynamically via a PCONTROL CODEPAGE type instruction. > > Or is this just adding unnecessary complications? I can set my 3270 > emulator back to "normal" and just use ssh directly from my desktop to a > UNIX shell prompt. Which is what I do 99% of the time anyway. > > -- > Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of > everything and the Wirth of nothing? > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > -- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! <>< John McKown
