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From: pepmnt@columbia.edu (John Chandler)
Subject: Re: How to convert US EBCDIC -> CP850 ?
Date: 25 Oct 2000 17:59:16 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <8t771k$9q7$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: "ralf.strandell" <ralf.strandell@silja.com> wrote:
: : We need to convert files from "us ebcdic" to cp850.
: :
: : These files contain mostly names with accented characters.
: :
: Which means they are not "US EBCDIC" but one of the "other"
: EBCDICs (see below).
Not necessarily. The original EBCDIC contained no accented
characters, but CECP 037 has the same repertory of characters
as all the other CECP's. However, if the context is one of
heavy use of accented characters, the code page actually used
was most likely one of the others anyhow.
: In the EBCDIC (IBM mainframe) world, there is a similar
: proliferation of code pages, called Country Extended Code Pages
: (CECP), including:
: CECP 037 (Original USA EBCDIC)
: CECP 237 (Germany)
: CECP 238 (Finland and Sweden)
The code pages supported by IBM mainframe Kermits for Germany and
Finland are, respectively, 273 and 278. In each case, they differ
from CECP 037 in only 28 code positions, but those 28 positions
could, of course, be crucial in terms of your particular file(s).
John Chandler