[Info-vax] Character sets

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 2:15 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

For *some* of them including the one that triggered this sub thread.

The significance of the example running on VMS is probably small
when the discussion occurs in comp.os.vms.

Arne