Hi,
Trying to come up with a "decent" (whatever that means) EBCDIC to
ASCII translation is a bit like trying to decide the length of the
coastline of Maine. It's all a matter of opinion.
So... I am asking your opinions ...
My initial choice was to produce a table to translate the mutually
defined characters of the 037 code page (one of the EBCDIC code
pages) into the corresponding characters of the 437 code page
("MS-DOS ASCII"). But both those code pages include a lot alphabetics
with various diacritical marks, and being an American, I don't need
or care much about those. (Now DON'T flame me for that. They just
don't figure into my needs.)
I DO care about several special symbols such as vertical bar, broken
vertical bar, copyright symbol, trademark, registered trademark, not
sign, upside down question mark and exclamation point, square
brackets, etc. ... a genuinely motley crew of stuff.
Complete reversibility doesn't matter. I need to reverse translate
only those characters mutually defined to both code pages. Everything
else can just go to ... well ... nulls, periods, blanks, whatever.
So, what are your favorite code pages? Or is that too restrictive a
question. Should I be asking, what are your favorite translations?
Thanks,
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