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Keith Bower wrote:
> Strange that they didn't mention the ¬ "not" sign and ^ hat (or circumflex)
> characters.  They "move" around in EBCDIC too.  Plus a few others.
> -Keith Bower
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Right. My research has turned up (thanks to some help
from others on this list) the following in the XL C/C++
Programming Guide, p. 817:

"The POSIX Portable Character Set (PPCS) identifies the core set of 128
characters that are needed to write code and to run applications. Of
these, 13 characters are variant among the EBCDIC coded character sets."

This, it seems, was [one of] the original source[s] for my
note; however, I seem to have recorded the wrong 13 characters;
the doc specifies this set: [ ] { } \ ^ ~ ! # | ` $ @

So I am staying with this set in my course.

Thanks for your response.

Kind regards,

-Steve Comstock



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> In several IBM docs there is a statement that
> there are 13 variant characters: characters that
> do not map consistently across all EBCDIC code
> pages. These are: [ ] - < > ! / ? & ' " @ #
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> I am looking for examples of these; I have found
> codepages with differing mappings for [ ] !
> but no luck on the others.
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> Can anyone point me to an EBCDIC codepage that
> maps - to anything other than x'60', for example?
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