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> From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:nick@flirble.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas Clark > And we don't even know if it works, because no-one working on the core > has access to these systems, and no-one with these systems is providing > reports. As I said before, situation isn't that hopeless: there is emulator (Hercules) I successfully tried that on my linux, ran z/OS there, have success story. but I haven't tried to build perl there yet. > We don't have infinite developer resources. (It's rather closer to 0 than > infinity.) So everything is a trade off, and effort being consumed by this > means that something else isn't being done. So effectively EBCDIC support > is stealing progress from the rest of the Perl userbase. Given that developer resources are indeed finite, these should be not wasted, so throwing away current UTF-EBCDIC is a serious step back. Speaking about resources distractions, there will always be many. Please let Perl for z/OS and hence UTF-EBCDIC be there for some more while. Regards, Vadim.Thread Previous | Thread Next