Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Translation

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1987 15:57

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In article <1622@van-bc.UUCP> skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) writes:
| In article <425@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
| )...  Are there 64 codes that can be trusted to any ASCII/EBCDIC translators,
| )and will come out the same when fed to any other EBCDIC/ASCII translator?
| 
| The upper *and* lower case alphabet and the digits together make up 62 of
| these characters.  Anyone have suggestions for the two more to go?  (I think
| '*' and '#', among others, could do it.)

If you really want to be portable, don't use '#', since it is a national
character set symbol.  I would recomend, something like '+' and
'-' (or '.' and ',') myself.
-- 
Michael Meissner, Data General.		Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner
					Arpa/Csnet:  meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM

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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Translation
Message-ID: <448@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 15:57:34 GMT
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Keywords: ASCII EBCDIC Translation Character Code

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