Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 04/06/2025 11:23, Paul Edwards wrote:

 And I know what you're thinking - all the data is in EBCDIC.
There are no other EBCDIC systems I could possibly jump to.
We would need an 80386 EBCDIC version of Win32 in order
for this to be remotely possible - which doesn't exist, and likely
never will exist.
 For it to exist it would need some sort of pseudo-bios concept
that allowed charset conversion. And no such thing exists as far
as I am aware!
 

You don't need an EBCDIC operating system, or "pseudo-bios" (whatever /that/ might be) to use data using EBCDIC character encoding.  It is no different from working with any other character encoding - ASCII, UTF-8, different 8-bit code pages, or whatever.  If the data is just passing through your code, read it in and pass it out without a care.  If you need to convert it or mix it with some other encoding, work with a common encoding - UTF-8 is normally the right choice.