The LC_SYNTAX setting does not affect:
- REXX execs.
- The ISPF shell (ISHELL).
ISHELL runs in the locale that MVS™ is
using, and therefore this could be different from the shell locale.
- Shell scripts. The code page in which a shell script is encoded
must match the code page of the locale in which it is run. For a shell
script to be shared by multiple users, they must all be in a locale
that uses the same code page as the code page in which the shell script
is encoded.
If you have different users operating in various locales,
you need multiple copies of a shell script, one for each different
locale code page. You can use the iconv command
to convert a shell script from one code page to another.
If shell scripts are tagged and automatic conversion is
not enabled, then the code page in which a shell script is encoded
must match the code page of the locale in which it is run.
If shell scripts are tagged and automatic conversion is
enabled, then the locale must indicate a SBCS code page.
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