Base VM TCP/IP Support for the Euro
Nearly 200 new translation tables (TCPXLBIN files)
have been added to VM TCP/IP. All of the tables
have a file name of the form
hhhhwwww, where hhhh is the 4-digit decimal
code page
number
to be used on the host, and wwww is the 4-digit decimal code page
number to be used on the client. Use leading zeroes if necessary.
For example, assume that you are using host code page 1047 (POSIX)
and workstation code page 819 (ISO 8859-1). The file name would
be 10470819
The code page you choose depends on the assumptions made by the
various operating system and application environments. For example,
even though you are using a Windows operating system, you may have a
file that was copied from a Unix system that requires a Unix-specific
code page.
The default translation table for all VM TCP/IP clients and servers
is STANDARD TCPXLBIN. This is a 7-bit ASCII
non-reversible translation. All extended ASCII characters with
values greater than 0x7F are lost because the high-order bit of
each octet (byte) is ignored.
All other translation tables included with VM TCP/IP are 8-bit tables.
The 8-bit tables provide the highest fidelity of transmitted
data, but should not be used in situations where a client or server
is known to treat the high-order bit in each octet as a parity bit.
It is important to recognize that changing a default translation
table for servers such as FTP and NFS can corrupt data in a file if that
file is uploaded and downloaded using different translation tables.
(This does not apply to binary transfers, of course.)
Translations are provided for all standard country
code pages
and their euro equivalents, code page 924 (ISO 8859-15, EBCDIC),
and code page 1047 (IBM OpenExtensions)
to the following workstation code pages:
- 819 ISO 8859-1 (ASCII)
- 923 ISO 8859-15 (ASCII)
- 850 PC
- 858 Euro-ready PC
- 500 International EBCDIC
- 1148 International euro-ready EBCDIC
- 1047 IBM OpenExtensions EBCDIC
- 1252 Microsoft® Windows®
In addition, code pages are available to convert between each
standard country code page and its euro-ready equivalent.
See TCP/IP
web pages for more information about TCP/IP.
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