On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:23 AM Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 1/4/21 10:10 PM, Hubert Tong wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 1:11 AM Tom Honermann via SG16 <
> sg16_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> The summary for the SG16 meeting held December 9th, 2020 is now
>> available. For those that attended, please review and suggest corrections:
>>
>> - https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16-meetings#december-9th-2020
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for the notes.
>
> With respect to the following:
>
> Hubert stated that encompasing the console in a separate facility would
> pose challenges.
>
> I raised at least one specific challenge:
>
> Hubert stated that encompasing the console in a separate facility would
> pose challenges because it assumes the presence of a unique "console" in
> the environment.
>
> Thank you! Fixed!
>
Thanks.

> I also archived the notes for meetings in 2020. The link above is still
> active, but an extra level of indirection has been introduced. The direct
> link to the notes for this meeting is now
> https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16-meetings/blob/master/README-2020.md#december-9th-2020
> .
>
>
> With regards to:
>
> Hubert explained that z/OS supports two modes:
>
> ASCII: interfaces are provided that perform conversion from an
> internal encoding when writing to a stream; this is commonly used for
> simple encodings.
> EBCDIC: this is a byte pass through mode.
>
> I'm quite sure I didn't say that EBCDIC is a byte pass through mode.
>
> My recollection is that I said something like:
> On z/OS, an application could internally be in ASCII or EBCDIC mode. Open
> file handles can be imbued with the property of being ASCII or EBCDIC. The
> C-level I/O APIs can automatically translate at least single-byte encodings.
>
> Thanks, it looks like I projected some of my own limited
> (mis)understanding there. I applied your update.
>
> My understanding had been that, when in ASCII mode, the standard C
> interfaces transcode to EBCDIC. But I had not thought through the ability
> to tag files with an encoding in the filesystem; those tags presumably
> apply equally to programs running in ASCII vs EBCDIC mode. When you refer
> to open file handles being imbued with an encoding, is this via filesystem
> tags? Or are there other system interfaces to do this (I don't see, for
> example, a mode option for fopen()).
>
Tags are involved, but are not the only way. The system interface can be
accessed using fcntl() using F_CONTROL_CVT and F_SETTAG.


> Tom.
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> -- HT
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