[llvm-dev] RFC: Adding support for the z/OS platform to LLVM and clang

[Fangrui Song via llvm-dev]

On 2020-06-10, Hubert Tong via llvm-dev wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:11 PM Kai Peter Nacke via llvm-dev <
>llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> 2) Add patches to Clang to allow EBCDIC and ASCII (ISO-8859-1) encoded
>> input source files. This would be done at the file open time to allow the
>> rest of Clang to operate as if the source was UTF-8 and so require no
>> changes downstream. Feedback on this plan is welcome from the Clang
>> community.
>>
>Is there a statement that can be made with respect to accepting UTF-8
>encoded source files in a z/OS hosted environment or is it implied that it
>works with no changes (and there are no changes that will break this
>functionality)?
>
>Also, would these changes enable the consumption of non-UTF-8 encoded
>source files on Clang as hosted on other platforms?

An 2018 thread has some discussions about non-UTF-8 encoding.
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-January/056745.html

Which case does z/OS want to support?