[Info-vax] Character sets

[John Dallman]

In article <tevbmu$8el$1 at news.misty.com>, bqt at softjar.se (Johnny
Billquist) wrote:

> On 2022-09-02 20:15, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > 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 ? :-)
> 
> If you had a user with a terminal that speaks EBCDIC, it could 
> potentially be very useful. Is that a normal Linux user? Probably 
> not. Don't make it less useful for the person in that situation, 
> and the fact that it happens on Linux is actually irrelevant.

Yup. When you run Linux on IBM mainframes, it uses ASCII and/or UTF-8,
like any other Linux. Trying to convert Linux to run with EBCDIC would
not have been sensible. 

John