On 2014-01-12 17:58, Gainsford, Allen wrote:
>>>> I get:
>>>>
>>>> //SYSIN DD PATHOPTS=ORDONLY,FILEDATA=TEXT,RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,
>>>> // BLKSIZE=8000,PATH='/tmp/user/Polyglot.s'
>>>>
>>>> 1 High Level Assembler Option Summary (PTF UK97444) Page 1
>>>> ...
>>>> 000000 ADBD 2 DC C'[]' 037: BA BB
>>>> 1047: AD BD 1148: 4A 5A
>>>> 000002 ADBD 3 DC CA'[]' 5B 5D
>
> Yes, but what you're seeing as "[]" in your listing above is the
> codepage-1047 [] characters (hex AD/BD). But the Assembler expects
> codepage-037 characters. AD and BD don't correspond to printable characters
> in codepage 037 (or at least not ones that HLASM seems to want to handle; it
> looks to me like they're a capital Y-acute and an umlaut), so it looks like
> it just leaves them alone.
>
Looking at:
CODEPAGE
HLASM Programmer's Guide
SC26-4941-06
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.-CODEPAGE(1148|X'47C')---.
>>-+-------------------------+---------------------------------><
'-CODEPAGE(nnnnn|X'xxxx')-'
Default
CODEPAGE(1148|X'47C')
... and looking elsewhere, it seems that CP1148 maps AD and BD to the
same Ý and ¨. And the ISO8859-1/CP819 for those are hex DD and A8.
Why weren't the AD converted to DD and BD to A8. Where is it documented
what ASCII code page CA'...' converts to? I haven't found it yet.
Might it be because DD and A8 lie outside the USASCII half of CP819?
Is there a restriction here documented somewhere? I haven't found
it yet.
I hate EBCDIC!
-- gil
