Re: iso-2022-jp encoding on EBCDIC

Rajarshi Das <dazio_r(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> writes:
>  Hi,
>
>  The following two line script gives an error on z/OS : "Unknown encoding 
> 'iso-2022-
>  jp' at line ..".
>  -----------------
>  use Encode; use encoding 'iso-2022-jp';
>  ------------
On an EBCDIC platform like z/OS that is going to be one strange script. It must
START in some EDCDIC dialect and after the ; must switch to iso-2022-jp which
is an escape encoding and as I recall uses ASCII-oid escapes.

>  How do we confirm if iso-2022-jp is supported on z/OS or not ? Or if it is
>  supported and not working as expected for some reason ?

"
package Encode::JP;
BEGIN {
    if (ord("A") == 193) {
        die "Encode::JP not supported on EBCDIC\n";
    }
}
"

So it seems authors have specifically excluded EBCDIC case.

>  Any pointers to the source where this encoding is defined ? The pointers
>  might help understand why it is not defined on an EBCDIC platform.
>
>  I printed Encode->encodings() on linux as well as z/OS and they are
>  identical (and both donot contain iso-2022-jp). Is this in anyway related to
>  the above problem ?
>
>
>  Thanks, Rajarshi.
>
>
>
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