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Customizing the variant characters on your keyboard

z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide
SA23-2279-00

If the shell is using a locale generated with code pages IBM-104 IBM-1027, or IBM-939, an application programmer needs to be concerned about variant characters in the POSIX portable character set whose encoding may vary from other EBCDIC code pages. For example, the encodings for the square brackets do not match on code pages IBM-037 and IBM-1047:
  • Left square bracket: [ (X'AD' on IBM-1047)
  • Right square bracket: ] (X'BD' on IBM-1047)

You may want to customize the encodings for those keys on your keyboard. See Code page conversion when the shell and MVS have different locales for more information on this topic.

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