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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/11/2019 6:25 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-09-11 kl. 11:59, skrev Tapland:
>> 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".

VMS does not store encoding.

But neither does other common OS'es.

Obviously not supported by a text editor, but a file
can also contains sections using different encodings.

Arne