Re: Left and Right Quotation Marks -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I guess my question is.. will these curly quotes even work in a PF with
CCSID 37?

Depends on what you mean by "work". How will this data be consumed?

As I said, the characters do not even exist in most EBCDIC code pages.
They definitely are not in CCSID 37. But I still haven't found out how
important it is that those *specific* characters get preserved. For
example, if we have a customer who wants curved quotes on their
business card that we are producing, they are not going to be happy if
we convert those to straight quotes. If it's just a name in a list of
contacts that we might use when we send out correspondence or
marketing, then it's not so critical whether the quotes are exactly
preserved.

So, in my view, we have to *first* identify the business need, *then*
look at the implementation options, rather than asking "OK, what can
we implement?".

As a very narrow, focused, *technical* question of "do Unicode code
points U+201C and U+201D exist in EBCDIC code page 37?", the answer is
flat-out no, they do not.

John Y.

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