Re: character munging

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From: Martin Mosner
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1987 20:24

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Wolf-Dieter,
your problem is to a big extent caused by the inconsistency in
the various definitions of the EBCDIC character set which the
IBM mainframes on bitnet/earn use.  We got caught by the same
symptom that you mention (different encodings for braces), and
our investigations made clear that there is no consistent EBCDIC
definition for some characters.  So it's not the fault of the
ASCII/EBCDIC translation, but the fault of IBM who sells terminals
and printer chains which have different characters at the same
code positions and vice versa.  My advice:  You should try to find
out what the actual ASCII->EBCDIC encoding in your case is, and
patch your IBM PC 3270 emulation to exactly reverse this encoding.
It should be possible somehow...

	Hans-Martin

PS: If you want to ask further questions, feel free to ask.
I'm HMM at UNIDO on BITNET/EARN.
D

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From: hmm@laura.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Martin Mosner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: character munging
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Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 16:24:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 26 16:24:39 1987
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Summary: EBCDIC is shit !

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