Re: Jobs that use 65535 CCSID... Why?

[Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are absolutely right John .. Nevertheless I hope you get my idea from
my post.

 Next time I will be more precise....

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 4:28 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Niels,
>
> I think UTF-EBCDIC is a great idea, and I think it is probably the
> most elegant way to internationalize ILE applications.
>
> However, I think you are doing a disservice by not being more careful
> about terminology. Specifically, you are perpetuating incorrect ideas
> about the meaning of the word "Unicode".
>
> Now, I don't know if you are using the word in some kind of
> case-sensitive way, such that "UNICODE" is not the same thing as
> "Unicode". Even if you are, it's still not good use of terminology.
>
> Unicode is NOT an encoding that is EVER implemented by ANY computer
> system. And it is not meant to be.
>
> Let's clear up what I mean by "encoding". Since virtually all the
> practical computers in the world are binary machines, an encoding is a
> mapping from human characters to specific bit patterns.
>
> Unicode is NOT that.
>
> Unicode is the name for what you could say is a mathematical concept.
> At its core, it is just an ordinal list of every possible character.
> It is a mapping from characters to NUMBERS. Not computer
> representations of numbers. Not bit patterns that correspond to the
> ones and zeros of the base-2 expression of numbers. Just numbers, like
> what elementary school students understand and use every day. In
> Unicode parlance, these numbers are called "code points".
>
> UTF-8 is an *encoding*. It is one way to *implement* Unicode on
> computers. UTF-8 is one scheme to map code points to specific bit
> patterns.
>
> UTF-16 and UTF-32 are also encodings that implement Unicode.
>
> EBCDIC, Windows-1252, and ISO-8859-1 are also encodings, but they do
> NOT implement Unicode.
>
> Please, respectfully, stop using the word "Unicode" (or even
> "UNICODE") to refer to any particular encoding. If you mean UTF-16,
> then say UTF-16.
>
> I'm not saying this to be pedantic. I'm saying this for a similar
> reason that many people on this list are passionate about encouraging
> the use of the term "IBM i" instead of "AS/400" when referring to the
> current IBM midrange platform.
>
> John Y.
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