Re: EBCDIC support?

[Jack Woehr]

Eric Blake wrote:
> The only exceptions I know of is that using a
> range operator (such as 'a-z' as the second or third argument to 
> translit,
> or '[a-z]' as the regular expression in regexp or patsubst) will probably
> work incorrectly, since those are not contiguous bytes in EBCDIC; spell
> out the range yourself.  A few of the tests in the testsuite will 
> probably
> fail because they assume ASCII or Latin-1 encoding.
Thank you for your help.
> I don't have access to an EBCDIC system (and these days, they are quite
> rare), but if you encounter any bugs, feel free to report them.
They're more common than one might think. The popular IBM AS/400 (oops,
nowadays "iSeries") is EBCDIC as are the IBM z/VM and z/OS operating
systems. A question about porting Open Object Rexx (http://www.oorexx.org/)
to z/OS sent this here GNU-ist scurrying to you for answers!

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