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Re: Selectable execution character set (and a whole bunch of sideeffe
kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>> > While there's nothing wrong with teaching iconv about UTF-EBCDIC, why on
>> > earth would you want to *use* it?
>>
>> Because it does exactly what I need: it's isomorphic to Unicode (so
>> there is no problem implementing \u escapes) and unibyte characters
>> match EBCDIC code points (so I don't have to replace every last
>> character constant in cpplib with a number, at great cost to
>> readability).
>
> Hmmm ...
>
> It's certainly a bootstrapping problem.
>
> However, wouldn't
> char c = L'A';
> work (in gcc) for getting 0x41 even with a local charset of EBCDIC?
No. I believe that historical releases of GCC, configured for
i370-ibm-mvs or -oe, would produce the EBCDIC value of 'A' padded to
the width of wchar_t and then truncated back to 'char'.
I do not know what encoding wchar_t is supposed to use on an EBCDIC
platform; I inquired of some people who ought to know, but never heard
back.
zw