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Codepage 1047, which is EBCDIC based, supports all the same characters that ISO8859-1 (latin 1) does. This includes diacritic characters. Beyond that, IBM main
by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Codepage 1047, which is EBCDIC based, supports all the same characters that ISO8859-1 (latin 1) does. This includes diacritic characters. Beyond that, IBM mainframes also work with UTF-16 natively. Can't the Dutch bank upgrade their mainframe?
- petree 3y agoLatin 1 doesn't cover all languages that use a Latin script, and has an incomplete character set for others.
- nuc1e0n 3y agoI agree, but I saw it claimed EBCDIC doesn't cover diacritic characters. That's not true. If ISO8859-1 covers the exact same set that CP1047 does and that doesn't meet GDPR's requirements, that implies ISO8859-1 doesn't either and a unicode based character encoding is a necessity for GDPR compliance. Then again, unicode doesn't cover the late artist formerly known as Prince's written name either. All things considered, IBM should work with that Dutch bank to move their system over to UTF-16. It's the natural progression of such things.