Re: Trademark symbol conversion from ASCII

[Mark Villa <iseries.4.me@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,
Good points, I will research options for CCSID control so we can print our
™ symbol

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 10:31 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> If you are talking about the small, superscripted "TM" symbol, then
> what you've seen is correct: There is no such symbol in any of the
> "normal" EBCDIC encodings.
>
> The proper solution is to use one of the Unicode encodings. These
> days, UTF-8 (CCSID 1208) is preferred whenever possible, because
> that's the de facto standard in the computing world at large. It's a
> varying multibyte encoding (some characters are encoded as just one
> byte, some are encoded as two bytes, some require even more), and some
> older or less-well-designed applications may not be able to handle
> that.
>
> The next-best choices are CCSID 1252 (the typical Windows encoding,
> not to be confused with CCSID 819 or 437, neither of which has the
> trademark symbol) or 1200 (UTF-16, big endian).
>
> I don't know the specifics of your requirements; if you cannot choose
> another CCSID, then your current workaround may be the best you can
> do.
>
> John Y.
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