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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/pod/perlebcdic.pod b/contrib/perl5/pod/perlebcdic.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 12ea2f3..0000000 --- a/contrib/perl5/pod/perlebcdic.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1235 +0,0 @@ -=head1 NAME - -perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -An exploration of some of the issues facing Perl programmers -on EBCDIC based computers. We do not cover localization, -internationalization, or multi byte character set issues (yet). - -Portions that are still incomplete are marked with XXX. - -=head1 COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS - -=head2 ASCII - -The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a set of -integers running from 0 to 127 (decimal) that imply character -interpretation by the display and other system(s) of computers. -The range 0..127 can be covered by setting the bits in a 7-bit binary -digit, hence the set is sometimes referred to as a "7-bit ASCII". -ASCII was described by the American National Standards Institute -document ANSI X3.4-1986. It was also described by ISO 646:1991 -(with localization for currency symbols). The full ASCII set is -given in the table below as the first 128 elements. Languages that -can be written adequately with the characters in ASCII include -English, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Swahili and some Native American -languages. - -There are many character sets that extend the range of integers -from 0..2**7-1 up to 2**8-1, or 8 bit bytes (octets if you prefer). -One common one is the ISO 8859-1 character set. - -=head2 ISO 8859 - -The ISO 8859-$n are a collection of character code sets from the -International Organization for Standardization (ISO) each of which -adds characters to the ASCII set that are typically found in European -languages many of which are based on the Roman, or Latin, alphabet. - -=head2 Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) - -A particular 8-bit extension to ASCII that includes grave and acute -accented Latin characters. Languages that can employ ISO 8859-1 -include all the languages covered by ASCII as well as Afrikaans, -Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian, -Portugese, Spanish, and Swedish. Dutch is covered albeit without -the ij ligature. French is covered too but without the oe ligature. -German can use ISO 8859-1 but must do so without German-style -quotation marks. This set is based on Western European extensions -to ASCII and is commonly encountered in world wide web work. -In IBM character code set identification terminology ISO 8859-1 is -also known as CCSID 819 (or sometimes 0819 or even 00819). - -=head2 EBCDIC - -The Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code refers to a -large collection of slightly different single and multi byte -coded character sets that are different from ASCII or ISO 8859-1 -and typically run on host computers. The EBCDIC encodings derive -from 8 bit byte extensions of Hollerith punched card encodings. -The layout on the cards was such that high bits were set for the -upper and lower case alphabet characters [a-z] and [A-Z], but there -were gaps within each latin alphabet range. - -Some IBM EBCDIC character sets may be known by character code set -identification numbers (CCSID numbers) or code page numbers. Leading -zero digits in CCSID numbers within this document are insignificant. -E.g. CCSID 0037 may be referred to as 37 in places. - -=head2 13 variant characters - -Among IBM EBCDIC character code sets there are 13 characters that -are often mapped to different integer values. Those characters -are known as the 13 "variant" characters and are: - - \ [ ] { } ^ ~ ! # | $ @ ` - -=head2 0037 - -Character code set ID 0037 is a mapping of the ASCII plus Latin-1 -characters (i.e. ISO 8859-1) to an EBCDIC set. 0037 is used -in North American English locales on the OS/400 operating system -that runs on AS/400 computers. CCSID 37 differs from ISO 8859-1 -in 237 places, in other words they agree on only 19 code point values. - -=head2 1047 - -Character code set ID 1047 is also a mapping of the ASCII plus -Latin-1 characters (i.e. ISO 8859-1) to an EBCDIC set. 1047 is -used under Unix System Services for OS/390, and OpenEdition for VM/ESA. -CCSID 1047 differs from CCSID 0037 in eight places. - -=head2 POSIX-BC - -The EBCDIC code page in use on Siemens' BS2000 system is distinct from -1047 and 0037. It is identified below as the POSIX-BC set. - -=head1 SINGLE OCTET TABLES - -The following tables list the ASCII and Latin 1 ordered sets including -the subsets: C0 controls (0..31), ASCII graphics (32..7e), delete (7f), -C1 controls (80..9f), and Latin-1 (a.k.a. ISO 8859-1) (a0..ff). In the -table non-printing control character names as well as the Latin 1 -extensions to ASCII have been labelled with character names roughly -corresponding to I<The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0> albeit with -substitutions such as s/LATIN// and s/VULGAR// in all cases, -s/CAPITAL LETTER// in some cases, and s/SMALL LETTER ([A-Z])/\l$1/ -in some other cases (the C<charnames> pragma names unfortunately do -not list explicit names for the C0 or C1 control characters). The -"names" of the C1 control set (128..159 in ISO 8859-1) listed here are -somewhat arbitrary. The differences between the 0037 and 1047 sets are -flagged with ***. The differences between the 1047 and POSIX-BC sets -are flagged with ###. All ord() numbers listed are decimal. If you -would rather see this table listing octal values then run the table -(that is, the pod version of this document since this recipe may not -work with a pod2_other_format translation) through: - -=over 4 - -=item recipe 0 - -=back - - perl -ne 'if(/(.{33})(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)/)' \ - -e '{printf("%s%-9o%-9o%-9o%-9o\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5)}' perlebcdic.pod - -If you would rather see this table listing hexadecimal values then -run the table through: - -=over 4 - -=item recipe 1 - -=back - - perl -ne 'if(/(.{33})(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)/)' \ - -e '{printf("%s%-9X%-9X%-9X%-9X\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5)}' perlebcdic.pod - - - 8859-1 - chr 0819 0037 1047 POSIX-BC - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - <NULL> 0 0 0 0 - <START OF HEADING> 1 1 1 1 - <START OF TEXT> 2 2 2 2 - <END OF TEXT> 3 3 3 3 - <END OF TRANSMISSION> 4 55 55 55 - <ENQUIRY> 5 45 45 45 - <ACKNOWLEDGE> 6 46 46 46 - <BELL> 7 47 47 47 - <BACKSPACE> 8 22 22 22 - <HORIZONTAL TABULATION> 9 5 5 5 - <LINE FEED> 10 37 21 21 *** - <VERTICAL TABULATION> 11 11 11 11 - <FORM FEED> 12 12 12 12 - <CARRIAGE RETURN> 13 13 13 13 - <SHIFT OUT> 14 14 14 14 - <SHIFT IN> 15 15 15 15 - <DATA LINK ESCAPE> 16 16 16 16 - <DEVICE CONTROL ONE> 17 17 17 17 - <DEVICE CONTROL TWO> 18 18 18 18 - <DEVICE CONTROL THREE> 19 19 19 19 - <DEVICE CONTROL FOUR> 20 60 60 60 - <NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE> 21 61 61 61 - <SYNCHRONOUS IDLE> 22 50 50 50 - <END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK> 23 38 38 38 - <CANCEL> 24 24 24 24 - <END OF MEDIUM> 25 25 25 25 - <SUBSTITUTE> 26 63 63 63 - <ESCAPE> 27 39 39 39 - <FILE SEPARATOR> 28 28 28 28 - <GROUP SEPARATOR> 29 29 29 29 - <RECORD SEPARATOR> 30 30 30 30 - <UNIT SEPARATOR> 31 31 31 31 - <SPACE> 32 64 64 64 - ! 33 90 90 90 - " 34 127 127 127 - # 35 123 123 123 - $ 36 91 91 91 - % 37 108 108 108 - & 38 80 80 80 - ' 39 125 125 125 - ( 40 77 77 77 - ) 41 93 93 93 - * 42 92 92 92 - + 43 78 78 78 - , 44 107 107 107 - - 45 96 96 96 - . 46 75 75 75 - / 47 97 97 97 - 0 48 240 240 240 - 1 49 241 241 241 - 2 50 242 242 242 - 3 51 243 243 243 - 4 52 244 244 244 - 5 53 245 245 245 - 6 54 246 246 246 - 7 55 247 247 247 - 8 56 248 248 248 - 9 57 249 249 249 - : 58 122 122 122 - ; 59 94 94 94 - < 60 76 76 76 - = 61 126 126 126 - > 62 110 110 110 - ? 63 111 111 111 - @ 64 124 124 124 - A 65 193 193 193 - B 66 194 194 194 - C 67 195 195 195 - D 68 196 196 196 - E 69 197 197 197 - F 70 198 198 198 - G 71 199 199 199 - H 72 200 200 200 - I 73 201 201 201 - J 74 209 209 209 - K 75 210 210 210 - L 76 211 211 211 - M 77 212 212 212 - N 78 213 213 213 - O 79 214 214 214 - P 80 215 215 215 - Q 81 216 216 216 - R 82 217 217 217 - S 83 226 226 226 - T 84 227 227 227 - U 85 228 228 228 - V 86 229 229 229 - W 87 230 230 230 - X 88 231 231 231 - Y 89 232 232 232 - Z 90 233 233 233 - [ 91 186 173 187 *** ### - \ 92 224 224 188 ### - ] 93 187 189 189 *** - ^ 94 176 95 106 *** ### - _ 95 109 109 109 - ` 96 121 121 74 ### - a 97 129 129 129 - b 98 130 130 130 - c 99 131 131 131 - d 100 132 132 132 - e 101 133 133 133 - f 102 134 134 134 - g 103 135 135 135 - h 104 136 136 136 - i 105 137 137 137 - j 106 145 145 145 - k 107 146 146 146 - l 108 147 147 147 - m 109 148 148 148 - n 110 149 149 149 - o 111 150 150 150 - p 112 151 151 151 - q 113 152 152 152 - r 114 153 153 153 - s 115 162 162 162 - t 116 163 163 163 - u 117 164 164 164 - v 118 165 165 165 - w 119 166 166 166 - x 120 167 167 167 - y 121 168 168 168 - z 122 169 169 169 - { 123 192 192 251 ### - | 124 79 79 79 - } 125 208 208 253 ### - ~ 126 161 161 255 ### - <DELETE> 127 7 7 7 - <C1 0> 128 32 32 32 - <C1 1> 129 33 33 33 - <C1 2> 130 34 34 34 - <C1 3> 131 35 35 35 - <C1 4> 132 36 36 36 - <C1 5> 133 21 37 37 *** - <C1 6> 134 6 6 6 - <C1 7> 135 23 23 23 - <C1 8> 136 40 40 40 - <C1 9> 137 41 41 41 - <C1 10> 138 42 42 42 - <C1 11> 139 43 43 43 - <C1 12> 140 44 44 44 - <C1 13> 141 9 9 9 - <C1 14> 142 10 10 10 - <C1 15> 143 27 27 27 - <C1 16> 144 48 48 48 - <C1 17> 145 49 49 49 - <C1 18> 146 26 26 26 - <C1 19> 147 51 51 51 - <C1 20> 148 52 52 52 - <C1 21> 149 53 53 53 - <C1 22> 150 54 54 54 - <C1 23> 151 8 8 8 - <C1 24> 152 56 56 56 - <C1 25> 153 57 57 57 - <C1 26> 154 58 58 58 - <C1 27> 155 59 59 59 - <C1 28> 156 4 4 4 - <C1 29> 157 20 20 20 - <C1 30> 158 62 62 62 - <C1 31> 159 255 255 95 ### - <NON-BREAKING SPACE> 160 65 65 65 - <INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK> 161 170 170 170 - <CENT SIGN> 162 74 74 176 ### - <POUND SIGN> 163 177 177 177 - <CURRENCY SIGN> 164 159 159 159 - <YEN SIGN> 165 178 178 178 - <BROKEN BAR> 166 106 106 208 ### - <SECTION SIGN> 167 181 181 181 - <DIAERESIS> 168 189 187 121 *** ### - <COPYRIGHT SIGN> 169 180 180 180 - <FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR> 170 154 154 154 - <LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET> 171 138 138 138 - <NOT SIGN> 172 95 176 186 *** ### - <SOFT HYPHEN> 173 202 202 202 - <REGISTERED TRADE MARK SIGN> 174 175 175 175 - <MACRON> 175 188 188 161 ### - <DEGREE SIGN> 176 144 144 144 - <PLUS-OR-MINUS SIGN> 177 143 143 143 - <SUPERSCRIPT TWO> 178 234 234 234 - <SUPERSCRIPT THREE> 179 250 250 250 - <ACUTE ACCENT> 180 190 190 190 - <MICRO SIGN> 181 160 160 160 - <PARAGRAPH SIGN> 182 182 182 182 - <MIDDLE DOT> 183 179 179 179 - <CEDILLA> 184 157 157 157 - <SUPERSCRIPT ONE> 185 218 218 218 - <MASC. ORDINAL INDICATOR> 186 155 155 155 - <RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET> 187 139 139 139 - <FRACTION ONE QUARTER> 188 183 183 183 - <FRACTION ONE HALF> 189 184 184 184 - <FRACTION THREE QUARTERS> 190 185 185 185 - <INVERTED QUESTION MARK> 191 171 171 171 - <A WITH GRAVE> 192 100 100 100 - <A WITH ACUTE> 193 101 101 101 - <A WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 194 98 98 98 - <A WITH TILDE> 195 102 102 102 - <A WITH DIAERESIS> 196 99 99 99 - <A WITH RING ABOVE> 197 103 103 103 - <CAPITAL LIGATURE AE> 198 158 158 158 - <C WITH CEDILLA> 199 104 104 104 - <E WITH GRAVE> 200 116 116 116 - <E WITH ACUTE> 201 113 113 113 - <E WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 202 114 114 114 - <E WITH DIAERESIS> 203 115 115 115 - <I WITH GRAVE> 204 120 120 120 - <I WITH ACUTE> 205 117 117 117 - <I WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 206 118 118 118 - <I WITH DIAERESIS> 207 119 119 119 - <CAPITAL LETTER ETH> 208 172 172 172 - <N WITH TILDE> 209 105 105 105 - <O WITH GRAVE> 210 237 237 237 - <O WITH ACUTE> 211 238 238 238 - <O WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 212 235 235 235 - <O WITH TILDE> 213 239 239 239 - <O WITH DIAERESIS> 214 236 236 236 - <MULTIPLICATION SIGN> 215 191 191 191 - <O WITH STROKE> 216 128 128 128 - <U WITH GRAVE> 217 253 253 224 ### - <U WITH ACUTE> 218 254 254 254 - <U WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 219 251 251 221 ### - <U WITH DIAERESIS> 220 252 252 252 - <Y WITH ACUTE> 221 173 186 173 *** ### - <CAPITAL LETTER THORN> 222 174 174 174 - <SMALL LETTER SHARP S> 223 89 89 89 - <a WITH GRAVE> 224 68 68 68 - <a WITH ACUTE> 225 69 69 69 - <a WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 226 66 66 66 - <a WITH TILDE> 227 70 70 70 - <a WITH DIAERESIS> 228 67 67 67 - <a WITH RING ABOVE> 229 71 71 71 - <SMALL LIGATURE ae> 230 156 156 156 - <c WITH CEDILLA> 231 72 72 72 - <e WITH GRAVE> 232 84 84 84 - <e WITH ACUTE> 233 81 81 81 - <e WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 234 82 82 82 - <e WITH DIAERESIS> 235 83 83 83 - <i WITH GRAVE> 236 88 88 88 - <i WITH ACUTE> 237 85 85 85 - <i WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 238 86 86 86 - <i WITH DIAERESIS> 239 87 87 87 - <SMALL LETTER eth> 240 140 140 140 - <n WITH TILDE> 241 73 73 73 - <o WITH GRAVE> 242 205 205 205 - <o WITH ACUTE> 243 206 206 206 - <o WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 244 203 203 203 - <o WITH TILDE> 245 207 207 207 - <o WITH DIAERESIS> 246 204 204 204 - <DIVISION SIGN> 247 225 225 225 - <o WITH STROKE> 248 112 112 112 - <u WITH GRAVE> 249 221 221 192 ### - <u WITH ACUTE> 250 222 222 222 - <u WITH CIRCUMFLEX> 251 219 219 219 - <u WITH DIAERESIS> 252 220 220 220 - <y WITH ACUTE> 253 141 141 141 - <SMALL LETTER thorn> 254 142 142 142 - <y WITH DIAERESIS> 255 223 223 223 - -If you would rather see the above table in CCSID 0037 order rather than -ASCII + Latin-1 order then run the table through: - -=over 4 - -=item recipe 2 - -=back - - perl -ne 'if(/.{33}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}/)'\ - -e '{push(@l,$_)}' \ - -e 'END{print map{$_->[0]}' \ - -e ' sort{$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]}' \ - -e ' map{[$_,substr($_,42,3)]}@l;}' perlebcdic.pod - -If you would rather see it in CCSID 1047 order then change the digit -42 in the last line to 51, like this: - -=over 4 - -=item recipe 3 - -=back - - perl -ne 'if(/.{33}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}/)'\ - -e '{push(@l,$_)}' \ - -e 'END{print map{$_->[0]}' \ - -e ' sort{$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]}' \ - -e ' map{[$_,substr($_,51,3)]}@l;}' perlebcdic.pod - -If you would rather see it in POSIX-BC order then change the digit -51 in the last line to 60, like this: - -=over 4 - -=item recipe 4 - -=back - - perl -ne 'if(/.{33}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}\s{6,8}\d{1,3}/)'\ - -e '{push(@l,$_)}' \ - -e 'END{print map{$_->[0]}' \ - -e ' sort{$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]}' \ - -e ' map{[$_,substr($_,60,3)]}@l;}' perlebcdic.pod - - -=head1 IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS - -To determine the character set you are running under from perl one -could use the return value of ord() or chr() to test one or more -character values. For example: - - $is_ascii = "A" eq chr(65); - $is_ebcdic = "A" eq chr(193); - -Also, "\t" is a C<HORIZONTAL TABULATION> character so that: - - $is_ascii = ord("\t") == 9; - $is_ebcdic = ord("\t") == 5; - -To distinguish EBCDIC code pages try looking at one or more of -the characters that differ between them. For example: - - $is_ebcdic_37 = "\n" eq chr(37); - $is_ebcdic_1047 = "\n" eq chr(21); - -Or better still choose a character that is uniquely encoded in any -of the code sets, e.g.: - - $is_ascii = ord('[') == 91; - $is_ebcdic_37 = ord('[') == 186; - $is_ebcdic_1047 = ord('[') == 173; - $is_ebcdic_POSIX_BC = ord('[') == 187; - -However, it would be unwise to write tests such as: - - $is_ascii = "\r" ne chr(13); # WRONG - $is_ascii = "\n" ne chr(10); # ILL ADVISED - -Obviously the first of these will fail to distinguish most ASCII machines -from either a CCSID 0037, a 1047, or a POSIX-BC EBCDIC machine since "\r" eq -chr(13) under all of those coded character sets. But note too that -because "\n" is chr(13) and "\r" is chr(10) on the MacIntosh (which is an -ASCII machine) the second C<$is_ascii> test will lead to trouble there. - -To determine whether or not perl was built under an EBCDIC -code page you can use the Config module like so: - - use Config; - $is_ebcdic = $Config{'ebcdic'} eq 'define'; - -=head1 CONVERSIONS - -=head2 tr/// - -In order to convert a string of characters from one character set to -another a simple list of numbers, such as in the right columns in the -above table, along with perl's tr/// operator is all that is needed. -The data in the table are in ASCII order hence the EBCDIC columns -provide easy to use ASCII to EBCDIC operations that are also easily -reversed. - -For example, to convert ASCII to code page 037 take the output of the second -column from the output of recipe 0 (modified to add \\ characters) and use -it in tr/// like so: - - $cp_037 = - '\000\001\002\003\234\011\206\177\227\215\216\013\014\015\016\017' . - '\020\021\022\023\235\205\010\207\030\031\222\217\034\035\036\037' . - '\200\201\202\203\204\012\027\033\210\211\212\213\214\005\006\007' . - '\220\221\026\223\224\225\226\004\230\231\232\233\024\025\236\032' . - '\040\240\342\344\340\341\343\345\347\361\242\056\074\050\053\174' . - '\046\351\352\353\350\355\356\357\354\337\041\044\052\051\073\254' . - '\055\057\302\304\300\301\303\305\307\321\246\054\045\137\076\077' . - '\370\311\312\313\310\315\316\317\314\140\072\043\100\047\075\042' . - '\330\141\142\143\144\145\146\147\150\151\253\273\360\375\376\261' . - '\260\152\153\154\155\156\157\160\161\162\252\272\346\270\306\244' . - '\265\176\163\164\165\166\167\170\171\172\241\277\320\335\336\256' . - '\136\243\245\267\251\247\266\274\275\276\133\135\257\250\264\327' . - '\173\101\102\103\104\105\106\107\110\111\255\364\366\362\363\365' . - '\175\112\113\114\115\116\117\120\121\122\271\373\374\371\372\377' . - '\134\367\123\124\125\126\127\130\131\132\262\324\326\322\323\325' . - '\060\061\062\063\064\065\066\067\070\071\263\333\334\331\332\237' ; - - my $ebcdic_string = $ascii_string; - eval '$ebcdic_string =~ tr/\000-\377/' . $cp_037 . '/'; - -To convert from EBCDIC 037 to ASCII just reverse the order of the tr/// -arguments like so: - - my $ascii_string = $ebcdic_string; - eval '$ascii_string = tr/' . $cp_037 . '/\000-\377/'; - -Similarly one could take the output of the third column from recipe 0 to -obtain a C<$cp_1047> table. The fourth column of the output from recipe -0 could provide a C<$cp_posix_bc> table suitable for transcoding as well. - -=head2 iconv - -XPG operability often implies the presence of an I<iconv> utility -available from the shell or from the C library. Consult your system's -documentation for information on iconv. - -On OS/390 see the iconv(1) man page. One way to invoke the iconv -shell utility from within perl would be to: - - # OS/390 example - $ascii_data = `echo '$ebcdic_data'| iconv -f IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1` - -or the inverse map: - - # OS/390 example - $ebcdic_data = `echo '$ascii_data'| iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047` - -For other perl based conversion options see the Convert::* modules on CPAN. - -=head2 C RTL - -The OS/390 C run time library provides _atoe() and _etoa() functions. - -=head1 OPERATOR DIFFERENCES - -The C<..> range operator treats certain character ranges with -care on EBCDIC machines. For example the following array -will have twenty six elements on either an EBCDIC machine -or an ASCII machine: - - @alphabet = ('A'..'Z'); # $#alphabet == 25 - -The bitwise operators such as & ^ | may return different results -when operating on string or character data in a perl program running -on an EBCDIC machine than when run on an ASCII machine. Here is -an example adapted from the one in L<perlop>: - - # EBCDIC-based examples - print "j p \n" ^ " a h"; # prints "JAPH\n" - print "JA" | " ph\n"; # prints "japh\n" - print "JAPH\nJunk" & "\277\277\277\277\277"; # prints "japh\n"; - print 'p N$' ^ " E<H\n"; # prints "Perl\n"; - -An interesting property of the 32 C0 control characters -in the ASCII table is that they can "literally" be constructed -as control characters in perl, e.g. C<(chr(0) eq "\c@")> -C<(chr(1) eq "\cA")>, and so on. Perl on EBCDIC machines has been -ported to take "\c@" to chr(0) and "\cA" to chr(1) as well, but the -thirty three characters that result depend on which code page you are -using. The table below uses the character names from the previous table -but with substitutions such as s/START OF/S.O./; s/END OF /E.O./; -s/TRANSMISSION/TRANS./; s/TABULATION/TAB./; s/VERTICAL/VERT./; -s/HORIZONTAL/HORIZ./; s/DEVICE CONTROL/D.C./; s/SEPARATOR/SEP./; -s/NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE/NEG. ACK./;. The POSIX-BC and 1047 sets are -identical throughout this range and differ from the 0037 set at only -one spot (21 decimal). Note that the C<LINE FEED> character -may be generated by "\cJ" on ASCII machines but by "\cU" on 1047 or POSIX-BC -machines and cannot be generated as a C<"\c.letter."> control character on -0037 machines. Note also that "\c\\" maps to two characters -not one. - - chr ord 8859-1 0037 1047 && POSIX-BC - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - "\c?" 127 <DELETE> " " ***>< - "\c@" 0 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> ***>< - "\cA" 1 <S.O. HEADING> <S.O. HEADING> <S.O. HEADING> - "\cB" 2 <S.O. TEXT> <S.O. TEXT> <S.O. TEXT> - "\cC" 3 <E.O. TEXT> <E.O. TEXT> <E.O. TEXT> - "\cD" 4 <E.O. TRANS.> <C1 28> <C1 28> - "\cE" 5 <ENQUIRY> <HORIZ. TAB.> <HORIZ. TAB.> - "\cF" 6 <ACKNOWLEDGE> <C1 6> <C1 6> - "\cG" 7 <BELL> <DELETE> <DELETE> - "\cH" 8 <BACKSPACE> <C1 23> <C1 23> - "\cI" 9 <HORIZ. TAB.> <C1 13> <C1 13> - "\cJ" 10 <LINE FEED> <C1 14> <C1 14> - "\cK" 11 <VERT. TAB.> <VERT. TAB.> <VERT. TAB.> - "\cL" 12 <FORM FEED> <FORM FEED> <FORM FEED> - "\cM" 13 <CARRIAGE RETURN> <CARRIAGE RETURN> <CARRIAGE RETURN> - "\cN" 14 <SHIFT OUT> <SHIFT OUT> <SHIFT OUT> - "\cO" 15 <SHIFT IN> <SHIFT IN> <SHIFT IN> - "\cP" 16 <DATA LINK ESCAPE> <DATA LINK ESCAPE> <DATA LINK ESCAPE> - "\cQ" 17 <D.C. ONE> <D.C. ONE> <D.C. ONE> - "\cR" 18 <D.C. TWO> <D.C. TWO> <D.C. TWO> - "\cS" 19 <D.C. THREE> <D.C. THREE> <D.C. THREE> - "\cT" 20 <D.C. FOUR> <C1 29> <C1 29> - "\cU" 21 <NEG. ACK.> <C1 5> <LINE FEED> *** - "\cV" 22 <SYNCHRONOUS IDLE> <BACKSPACE> <BACKSPACE> - "\cW" 23 <E.O. TRANS. BLOCK> <C1 7> <C1 7> - "\cX" 24 <CANCEL> <CANCEL> <CANCEL> - "\cY" 25 <E.O. MEDIUM> <E.O. MEDIUM> <E.O. MEDIUM> - "\cZ" 26 <SUBSTITUTE> <C1 18> <C1 18> - "\c[" 27 <ESCAPE> <C1 15> <C1 15> - "\c\\" 28 <FILE SEP.>\ <FILE SEP.>\ <FILE SEP.>\ - "\c]" 29 <GROUP SEP.> <GROUP SEP.> <GROUP SEP.> - "\c^" 30 <RECORD SEP.> <RECORD SEP.> <RECORD SEP.> ***>< - "\c_" 31 <UNIT SEP.> <UNIT SEP.> <UNIT SEP.> ***>< - - -=head1 FUNCTION DIFFERENCES - -=over 8 - -=item chr() - -chr() must be given an EBCDIC code number argument to yield a desired -character return value on an EBCDIC machine. For example: - - $CAPITAL_LETTER_A = chr(193); - -=item ord() - -ord() will return EBCDIC code number values on an EBCDIC machine. -For example: - - $the_number_193 = ord("A"); - -=item pack() - -The c and C templates for pack() are dependent upon character set -encoding. Examples of usage on EBCDIC include: - - $foo = pack("CCCC",193,194,195,196); - # $foo eq "ABCD" - $foo = pack("C4",193,194,195,196); - # same thing - - $foo = pack("ccxxcc",193,194,195,196); - # $foo eq "AB\0\0CD" - -=item print() - -One must be careful with scalars and strings that are passed to -print that contain ASCII encodings. One common place -for this to occur is in the output of the MIME type header for -CGI script writing. For example, many perl programming guides -recommend something similar to: - - print "Content-type:\ttext/html\015\012\015\012"; - # this may be wrong on EBCDIC - -Under the IBM OS/390 USS Web Server for example you should instead -write that as: - - print "Content-type:\ttext/html\r\n\r\n"; # OK for DGW et alia - -That is because the translation from EBCDIC to ASCII is done -by the web server in this case (such code will not be appropriate for -the Macintosh however). Consult your web server's documentation for -further details. - -=item printf() - -The formats that can convert characters to numbers and vice versa -will be different from their ASCII counterparts when executed -on an EBCDIC machine. Examples include: - - printf("%c%c%c",193,194,195); # prints ABC - -=item sort() - -EBCDIC sort results may differ from ASCII sort results especially for -mixed case strings. This is discussed in more detail below. - -=item sprintf() - -See the discussion of printf() above. An example of the use -of sprintf would be: - - $CAPITAL_LETTER_A = sprintf("%c",193); - -=item unpack() - -See the discussion of pack() above. - -=back - -=head1 REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES - -As of perl 5.005_03 the letter range regular expression such as -[A-Z] and [a-z] have been especially coded to not pick up gap -characters. For example, characters such as E<ocirc> C<o WITH CIRCUMFLEX> -that lie between I and J would not be matched by the -regular expression range C</[H-K]/>. - -If you do want to match the alphabet gap characters in a single octet -regular expression try matching the hex or octal code such -as C</\313/> on EBCDIC or C</\364/> on ASCII machines to -have your regular expression match C<o WITH CIRCUMFLEX>. - -Another construct to be wary of is the inappropriate use of hex or -octal constants in regular expressions. Consider the following -set of subs: - - sub is_c0 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char =~ /[\000-\037]/; - } - - sub is_print_ascii { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char =~ /[\040-\176]/; - } - - sub is_delete { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char eq "\177"; - } - - sub is_c1 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char =~ /[\200-\237]/; - } - - sub is_latin_1 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char =~ /[\240-\377]/; - } - -The above would be adequate if the concern was only with numeric code points. -However, the concern may be with characters rather than code points -and on an EBCDIC machine it may be desirable for constructs such as -C<if (is_print_ascii("A")) {print "A is a printable character\n";}> to print -out the expected message. One way to represent the above collection -of character classification subs that is capable of working across the -four coded character sets discussed in this document is as follows: - - sub Is_c0 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - if (ord('^')==94) { # ascii - return $char =~ /[\000-\037]/; - } - if (ord('^')==176) { # 37 - return $char =~ /[\000-\003\067\055-\057\026\005\045\013-\023\074\075\062\046\030\031\077\047\034-\037]/; - } - if (ord('^')==95 || ord('^')==106) { # 1047 || posix-bc - return $char =~ /[\000-\003\067\055-\057\026\005\025\013-\023\074\075\062\046\030\031\077\047\034-\037]/; - } - } - - sub Is_print_ascii { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char =~ /[ !"\#\$%&'()*+,\-.\/0-9:;<=>?\@A-Z[\\\]^_`a-z{|}~]/; - } - - sub Is_delete { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - if (ord('^')==94) { # ascii - return $char eq "\177"; - } - else { # ebcdic - return $char eq "\007"; - } - } - - sub Is_c1 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - if (ord('^')==94) { # ascii - return $char =~ /[\200-\237]/; - } - if (ord('^')==176) { # 37 - return $char =~ /[\040-\044\025\006\027\050-\054\011\012\033\060\061\032\063-\066\010\070-\073\040\024\076\377]/; - } - if (ord('^')==95) { # 1047 - return $char =~ /[\040-\045\006\027\050-\054\011\012\033\060\061\032\063-\066\010\070-\073\040\024\076\377]/; - } - if (ord('^')==106) { # posix-bc - return $char =~ - /[\040-\045\006\027\050-\054\011\012\033\060\061\032\063-\066\010\070-\073\040\024\076\137]/; - } - } - - sub Is_latin_1 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - if (ord('^')==94) { # ascii - return $char =~ /[\240-\377]/; - } - if (ord('^')==176) { # 37 - return $char =~ - /[\101\252\112\261\237\262\152\265\275\264\232\212\137\312\257\274\220\217\352\372\276\240\266\263\235\332\233\213\267\270\271\253\144\145\142\146\143\147\236\150\164\161-\163\170\165-\167\254\151\355\356\353\357\354\277\200\375\376\373\374\255\256\131\104\105\102\106\103\107\234\110\124\121-\123\130\125-\127\214\111\315\316\313\317\314\341\160\335\336\333\334\215\216\337]/; - } - if (ord('^')==95) { # 1047 - return $char =~ - /[\101\252\112\261\237\262\152\265\273\264\232\212\260\312\257\274\220\217\352\372\276\240\266\263\235\332\233\213\267\270\271\253\144\145\142\146\143\147\236\150\164\161-\163\170\165-\167\254\151\355\356\353\357\354\277\200\375\376\373\374\272\256\131\104\105\102\106\103\107\234\110\124\121-\123\130\125-\127\214\111\315\316\313\317\314\341\160\335\336\333\334\215\216\337]/; - } - if (ord('^')==106) { # posix-bc - return $char =~ - /[\101\252\260\261\237\262\320\265\171\264\232\212\272\312\257\241\220\217\352\372\276\240\266\263\235\332\233\213\267\270\271\253\144\145\142\146\143\147\236\150\164\161-\163\170\165-\167\254\151\355\356\353\357\354\277\200\340\376\335\374\255\256\131\104\105\102\106\103\107\234\110\124\121-\123\130\125-\127\214\111\315\316\313\317\314\341\160\300\336\333\334\215\216\337]/; - } - } - -Note however that only the C<Is_ascii_print()> sub is really independent -of coded character set. Another way to write C<Is_latin_1()> would be -to use the characters in the range explicitly: - - sub Is_latin_1 { - my $char = substr(shift,0,1); - $char =~ /[ ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ]/; - } - -Although that form may run into trouble in network transit (due to the -presence of 8 bit characters) or on non ISO-Latin character sets. - -=head1 SOCKETS - -Most socket programming assumes ASCII character encodings in network -byte order. Exceptions can include CGI script writing under a -host web server where the server may take care of translation for you. -Most host web servers convert EBCDIC data to ISO-8859-1 or Unicode on -output. - -=head1 SORTING - -One big difference between ASCII based character sets and EBCDIC ones -are the relative positions of upper and lower case letters and the -letters compared to the digits. If sorted on an ASCII based machine the -two letter abbreviation for a physician comes before the two letter -for drive, that is: - - @sorted = sort(qw(Dr. dr.)); # @sorted holds ('Dr.','dr.') on ASCII, - # but ('dr.','Dr.') on EBCDIC - -The property of lower case before uppercase letters in EBCDIC is -even carried to the Latin 1 EBCDIC pages such as 0037 and 1047. -An example would be that E<Euml> C<E WITH DIAERESIS> (203) comes -before E<euml> C<e WITH DIAERESIS> (235) on an ASCII machine, but -the latter (83) comes before the former (115) on an EBCDIC machine. -(Astute readers will note that the upper case version of E<szlig> -C<SMALL LETTER SHARP S> is simply "SS" and that the upper case version of -E<yuml> C<y WITH DIAERESIS> is not in the 0..255 range but it is -at U+x0178 in Unicode, or C<"\x{178}"> in a Unicode enabled Perl). - -The sort order will cause differences between results obtained on -ASCII machines versus EBCDIC machines. What follows are some suggestions -on how to deal with these differences. - -=head2 Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences. - -This is the least computationally expensive strategy. It may require -some user education. - -=head2 MONO CASE then sort data. - -In order to minimize the expense of mono casing mixed test try to -C<tr///> towards the character set case most employed within the data. -If the data are primarily UPPERCASE non Latin 1 then apply tr/[a-z]/[A-Z]/ -then sort(). If the data are primarily lowercase non Latin 1 then -apply tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/ before sorting. If the data are primarily UPPERCASE -and include Latin-1 characters then apply: - - tr/[a-z]/[A-Z]/; - tr/[àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþ]/[ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]/; - s/ß/SS/g; - -then sort(). Do note however that such Latin-1 manipulation does not -address the E<yuml> C<y WITH DIAERESIS> character that will remain at -code point 255 on ASCII machines, but 223 on most EBCDIC machines -where it will sort to a place less than the EBCDIC numerals. With a -Unicode enabled Perl you might try: - - tr/^?/\x{178}/; - -The strategy of mono casing data before sorting does not preserve the case -of the data and may not be acceptable for that reason. - -=head2 Convert, sort data, then re convert. - -This is the most expensive proposition that does not employ a network -connection. - -=head2 Perform sorting on one type of machine only. - -This strategy can employ a network connection. As such -it would be computationally expensive. - -=head1 TRANFORMATION FORMATS - -There are a variety of ways of transforming data with an intra character set -mapping that serve a variety of purposes. Sorting was discussed in the -previous section and a few of the other more popular mapping techniques are -discussed next. - -=head2 URL decoding and encoding - -Note that some URLs have hexadecimal ASCII code points in them in an -attempt to overcome character or protocol limitation issues. For example -the tilde character is not on every keyboard hence a URL of the form: - - http://www.pvhp.com/~pvhp/ - -may also be expressed as either of: - - http://www.pvhp.com/%7Epvhp/ - - http://www.pvhp.com/%7epvhp/ - -where 7E is the hexadecimal ASCII code point for '~'. Here is an example -of decoding such a URL under CCSID 1047: - - $url = 'http://www.pvhp.com/%7Epvhp/'; - # this array assumes code page 1047 - my @a2e_1047 = ( - 0, 1, 2, 3, 55, 45, 46, 47, 22, 5, 21, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, - 16, 17, 18, 19, 60, 61, 50, 38, 24, 25, 63, 39, 28, 29, 30, 31, - 64, 90,127,123, 91,108, 80,125, 77, 93, 92, 78,107, 96, 75, 97, - 240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,122, 94, 76,126,110,111, - 124,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,209,210,211,212,213,214, - 215,216,217,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233,173,224,189, 95,109, - 121,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,145,146,147,148,149,150, - 151,152,153,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,192, 79,208,161, 7, - 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 6, 23, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 9, 10, 27, - 48, 49, 26, 51, 52, 53, 54, 8, 56, 57, 58, 59, 4, 20, 62,255, - 65,170, 74,177,159,178,106,181,187,180,154,138,176,202,175,188, - 144,143,234,250,190,160,182,179,157,218,155,139,183,184,185,171, - 100,101, 98,102, 99,103,158,104,116,113,114,115,120,117,118,119, - 172,105,237,238,235,239,236,191,128,253,254,251,252,186,174, 89, - 68, 69, 66, 70, 67, 71,156, 72, 84, 81, 82, 83, 88, 85, 86, 87, - 140, 73,205,206,203,207,204,225,112,221,222,219,220,141,142,223 - ); - $url =~ s/%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/pack("c",$a2e_1047[hex($1)])/ge; - -Conversely, here is a partial solution for the task of encoding such -a URL under the 1047 code page: - - $url = 'http://www.pvhp.com/~pvhp/'; - # this array assumes code page 1047 - my @e2a_1047 = ( - 0, 1, 2, 3,156, 9,134,127,151,141,142, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, - 16, 17, 18, 19,157, 10, 8,135, 24, 25,146,143, 28, 29, 30, 31, - 128,129,130,131,132,133, 23, 27,136,137,138,139,140, 5, 6, 7, - 144,145, 22,147,148,149,150, 4,152,153,154,155, 20, 21,158, 26, - 32,160,226,228,224,225,227,229,231,241,162, 46, 60, 40, 43,124, - 38,233,234,235,232,237,238,239,236,223, 33, 36, 42, 41, 59, 94, - 45, 47,194,196,192,193,195,197,199,209,166, 44, 37, 95, 62, 63, - 248,201,202,203,200,205,206,207,204, 96, 58, 35, 64, 39, 61, 34, - 216, 97, 98, 99,100,101,102,103,104,105,171,187,240,253,254,177, - 176,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,170,186,230,184,198,164, - 181,126,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,161,191,208, 91,222,174, - 172,163,165,183,169,167,182,188,189,190,221,168,175, 93,180,215, - 123, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,173,244,246,242,243,245, - 125, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82,185,251,252,249,250,255, - 92,247, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90,178,212,214,210,211,213, - 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,179,219,220,217,218,159 - ); - # The following regular expression does not address the - # mappings for: ('.' => '%2E', '/' => '%2F', ':' => '%3A') - $url =~ s/([\t "#%&\(\),;<=>\?\@\[\\\]^`{|}~])/sprintf("%%%02X",$e2a_1047[ord($1)])/ge; - -where a more complete solution would split the URL into components -and apply a full s/// substitution only to the appropriate parts. - -In the remaining examples a @e2a or @a2e array may be employed -but the assignment will not be shown explicitly. For code page 1047 -you could use the @a2e_1047 or @e2a_1047 arrays just shown. - -=head2 uu encoding and decoding - -The C<u> template to pack() or unpack() will render EBCDIC data in EBCDIC -characters equivalent to their ASCII counterparts. For example, the -following will print "Yes indeed\n" on either an ASCII or EBCDIC computer: - - $all_byte_chrs = ''; - for (0..255) { $all_byte_chrs .= chr($_); } - $uuencode_byte_chrs = pack('u', $all_byte_chrs); - ($uu = <<' ENDOFHEREDOC') =~ s/^\s*//gm; - M``$"`P0%!@<("0H+#`T.#Q`1$A,4%187&!D:&QP='A\@(2(C)"4F)R@I*BLL - M+2XO,#$R,S0U-C<X.3H[/#T^/T!!0D-$149'2$E*2TQ-3D]045)35%565UA9 - M6EM<75Y?8&%B8V1E9F=H:6IK;&UN;W!Q<G-T=79W>'EZ>WQ]?G^`@8*#A(6& - MAXB)BHN,C8Z/D)&2DY25EI>8F9J;G)V>GZ"AHJ.DI::GJ*FJJZRMKJ^PL;*S - MM+6VM[BYNKN\O;Z_P,'"P\3%QL?(R<K+S,W.S]#1TM/4U=;7V-G:V]S=WM_@ - ?X>+CY.7FY^CIZNOL[>[O\/'R\_3U]O?X^?K[_/W^_P`` - ENDOFHEREDOC - if ($uuencode_byte_chrs eq $uu) { - print "Yes "; - } - $uudecode_byte_chrs = unpack('u', $uuencode_byte_chrs); - if ($uudecode_byte_chrs eq $all_byte_chrs) { - print "indeed\n"; - } - -Here is a very spartan uudecoder that will work on EBCDIC provided -that the @e2a array is filled in appropriately: - - #!/usr/local/bin/perl - @e2a = ( # this must be filled in - ); - $_ = <> until ($mode,$file) = /^begin\s*(\d*)\s*(\S*)/; - open(OUT, "> $file") if $file ne ""; - while(<>) { - last if /^end/; - next if /[a-z]/; - next unless int(((($e2a[ord()] - 32 ) & 077) + 2) / 3) == - int(length() / 4); - print OUT unpack("u", $_); - } - close(OUT); - chmod oct($mode), $file; - - -=head2 Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding - -On ASCII encoded machines it is possible to strip characters outside of -the printable set using: - - # This QP encoder works on ASCII only - $qp_string =~ s/([=\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF])/sprintf("=%02X",ord($1))/ge; - -Whereas a QP encoder that works on both ASCII and EBCDIC machines -would look somewhat like the following (where the EBCDIC branch @e2a -array is omitted for brevity): - - if (ord('A') == 65) { # ASCII - $delete = "\x7F"; # ASCII - @e2a = (0 .. 255) # ASCII to ASCII identity map - } - else { # EBCDIC - $delete = "\x07"; # EBCDIC - @e2a = # EBCDIC to ASCII map (as shown above) - } - $qp_string =~ - s/([^ !"\#\$%&'()*+,\-.\/0-9:;<>?\@A-Z[\\\]^_`a-z{|}~$delete])/sprintf("=%02X",$e2a[ord($1)])/ge; - -(although in production code the substitutions might be done -in the EBCDIC branch with the @e2a array and separately in the -ASCII branch without the expense of the identity map). - -Such QP strings can be decoded with: - - # This QP decoder is limited to ASCII only - $string =~ s/=([0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f])/chr hex $1/ge; - $string =~ s/=[\n\r]+$//; - -Whereas a QP decoder that works on both ASCII and EBCDIC machines -would look somewhat like the following (where the @a2e array is -omitted for brevity): - - $string =~ s/=([0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f])/chr $a2e[hex $1]/ge; - $string =~ s/=[\n\r]+$//; - -=head2 Caesarian cyphers - -The practice of shifting an alphabet one or more characters for encipherment -dates back thousands of years and was explicitly detailed by Gaius Julius -Caesar in his B<Gallic Wars> text. A single alphabet shift is sometimes -referred to as a rotation and the shift amount is given as a number $n after -the string 'rot' or "rot$n". Rot0 and rot26 would designate identity maps -on the 26 letter English version of the Latin alphabet. Rot13 has the -interesting property that alternate subsequent invocations are identity maps -(thus rot13 is its own non-trivial inverse in the group of 26 alphabet -rotations). Hence the following is a rot13 encoder and decoder that will -work on ASCII and EBCDIC machines: - - #!/usr/local/bin/perl - - while(<>){ - tr/n-za-mN-ZA-M/a-zA-Z/; - print; - } - -In one-liner form: - - perl -ne 'tr/n-za-mN-ZA-M/a-zA-Z/;print' - - -=head1 Hashing order and checksums - -XXX - -=head1 I18N AND L10N - -Internationalization(I18N) and localization(L10N) are supported at least -in principle even on EBCDIC machines. The details are system dependent -and discussed under the L<perlebcdic/OS ISSUES> section below. - -=head1 MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS - -Multi byte EBCDIC code pages; Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-EBCDIC, XXX. - -=head1 OS ISSUES - -There may be a few system dependent issues -of concern to EBCDIC Perl programmers. - -=head2 OS/400 - -The PASE environment. - -=over 8 - -=item IFS access - -XXX. - -=back - -=head2 OS/390 - -Perl runs under Unix Systems Services or USS. - -=over 8 - -=item chcp - -B<chcp> is supported as a shell utility for displaying and changing -one's code page. See also L<chcp>. - -=item dataset access - -For sequential data set access try: - - my @ds_records = `cat //DSNAME`; - -or: - - my @ds_records = `cat //'HLQ.DSNAME'`; - -See also the OS390::Stdio module on CPAN. - -=item OS/390 iconv - -B<iconv> is supported as both a shell utility and a C RTL routine. -See also the iconv(1) and iconv(3) manual pages. - -=item locales - -On OS/390 see L<locale> for information on locales. The L10N files -are in F</usr/nls/locale>. $Config{d_setlocale} is 'define' on OS/390. - -=back - -=head2 VM/ESA? - -XXX. - -=head2 POSIX-BC? - -XXX. - -=head1 BUGS - -This pod document contains literal Latin 1 characters and may encounter -translation difficulties. In particular one popular nroff implementation -was known to strip accented characters to their unaccented counterparts -while attempting to view this document through the B<pod2man> program -(for example, you may see a plain C<y> rather than one with a diaeresis -as in E<yuml>). Another nroff truncated the resultant man page at -the first occurence of 8 bit characters. - -Not all shells will allow multiple C<-e> string arguments to perl to -be concatenated together properly as recipes 2, 3, and 4 might seem -to imply. - -Perl does not yet work with any Unicode features on EBCDIC platforms. - -=head1 SEE ALSO - -L<perllocale>, L<perlfunc>. - -=head1 REFERENCES - -http://anubis.dkuug.dk/i18n/charmaps - -http://www.unicode.org/ - -http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/ - -http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/ -B<ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Infiltration> Tom Jennings, -September 1999. - -B<The Unicode Standard Version 2.0> The Unicode Consortium, -ISBN 0-201-48345-9, Addison Wesley Developers Press, July 1996. - -B<The Unicode Standard Version 3.0> The Unicode Consortium, Lisa Moore ed., -ISBN 0-201-61633-5, Addison Wesley Developers Press, February 2000. - -B<CDRA: IBM - Character Data Representation Architecture - -Reference and Registry>, IBM SC09-2190-00, December 1996. - -"Demystifying Character Sets", Andrea Vine, Multilingual Computing -& Technology, B<#26 Vol. 10 Issue 4>, August/September 1999; -ISSN 1523-0309; Multilingual Computing Inc. Sandpoint ID, USA. - -B<Codes, Ciphers, and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication> -Fred B. Wrixon, ISBN 1-57912-040-7, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, -1998. - -=head1 AUTHOR - -Peter Prymmer pvhp@best.com wrote this in 1999 and 2000 -with CCSID 0819 and 0037 help from Chris Leach and -AndrE<eacute> Pirard A.Pirard@ulg.ac.be as well as POSIX-BC -help from Thomas Dorner Thomas.Dorner@start.de. -Thanks also to Vickie Cooper, Philip Newton, William Raffloer, and -Joe Smith. Trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks and -registered service marks used in this document are the property of -their respective owners. - - |
