[Info-vax] Making sure Character Encodings dont't break between workstation and OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-09-11 kl. 11:59, skrev Tapland:
> Ok!
> 
> It really helped with the thinking around how to handle encoding to know
> that OpenVMS doesn't store that information. I've noticed seemingly
> strange behavior in the past (like being able to create carriage return
> and newline symbols in EVE that have no effect on the actual layout).
> 

Well, VMS do save *some* information, such as line format (variable
or fixed) and how to interpret the end-of-line.

But that is not really the same thing as "character encoding".