[Info-vax] Character sets

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-09-02, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 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.
>

What other operating systems do you believe are currently hosting
applications today that require 7-bit national character sets ?

If you include Linux in that list, the next question I will ask is
how does that tie up with the fact those character sets were considered
obsolete before Linux even existed ?

Simon.

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