[Info-vax] Character sets

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-09-02, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2022-09-02 15:16, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> PS: I do now understand why this was done, but at the same time, for any
>> VMS systems still doing this, it could easily give the impression to people
>> not familiar with VMS of how once again "that VMS system is different from
>> all the other systems we use."
>
> I can give you a program for Linux right now, that also expects 
> ISO-646-SE, in case you really insist on thinking that this has anything 
> to do with VMS.
>

Any many Linux programmers would even know that such a thing exists,
let alone have any need to use it ?

You could also do a version of Emacs (for example) that outputs EBCDIC
codes instead of one of the normal character sets when run on Linux.
How useful would that be to normal Linux users ? :-)

BTW, it's to do with VMS because VMS is the host OS for the applications
that still use these 7-bit national character sets today.

Simon.

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