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Re: Is EBCDIC support gone?
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From: Stephan Mühlstrasser via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:55:00 +0200
Am 20.07.2022 um 12:29 schrieb Patrick Monnerat via curl-library:
> This is true: libcurl internally only works on ASCII-based character sets.
>
> However the OS400 platform interface still implements EBCDIC wrappers to
> the API that are completely independent of the late CURL_DOES_CONVERSION
> code.
>
> This approach is less-error prone for libcurl's code as it concentrates
> code conversion efforts to a single place. In addition, it offers (on
> the OS400) at runtime the choice among using several EBCDIC variants and
> to mix them.
Thanks, I was not aware of this wrapper. It looks like it is quite
OS400-specific, so making this work on z/OS would require probably some
effort.
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:55:00 +0200
Am 20.07.2022 um 12:29 schrieb Patrick Monnerat via curl-library:
> This is true: libcurl internally only works on ASCII-based character sets.
>
> However the OS400 platform interface still implements EBCDIC wrappers to
> the API that are completely independent of the late CURL_DOES_CONVERSION
> code.
>
> This approach is less-error prone for libcurl's code as it concentrates
> code conversion efforts to a single place. In addition, it offers (on
> the OS400) at runtime the choice among using several EBCDIC variants and
> to mix them.
Thanks, I was not aware of this wrapper. It looks like it is quite
OS400-specific, so making this work on z/OS would require probably some
effort.
-- Stephan -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.htmlReceived on 2022-07-20