>There are 13 EBCDIC characters that vary across EBCDIC character
>map codepages but that must always be defined when using locale
>settings; here are some sample mappings:
>
>character string: [ ] { } ! \ ^ ~ ` $ | @ #
>EBCDIC 1140: BA BB C0 D0 5A E0 B0 A1 79 5B 4F 7C 7B
>EBCDIC 500: 4A 5A C0 D0 4F E0 5F A1 79 5B BB 7C 7B
>EBCDIC 1047: AD BD C0 D0 5A E0 5F A1 79 5B 4F 7C 7B
>EBCDIC 1143 B5 9F 43 47 4F 71 5F DC 51 67 BB EC 63
>ASCII / UTF-8: 5B 5D 7B 7D 21 5C 5E 7E 60 24 7C 40 23
>UTF-16:[ ] { } ! \ ^ ~ ` $ | @ #
> 005B005D007B007D0021005C005E007E00600024007C00400023
To be more precise: There are 13 characters (a character itself is
neither EBCDIC nor ASCII, is it?) that are relevant to programming
languages that may have different code points in different EBCDIC
code pages.
There are more than those 13 characters that may have different
code points. Need an example? Compare code pages 273 and 500. The
former being the one used in Germany (a.o.), the latter being used
in Switzerland (a.o.). They assign different code points for such
basic characters as the Umlauts, which are being heavily used in
both countries: Ä (capital A-umlaut) in CP273 is at X'4A', in CP500
it is at X'63'.
I'm using the following link to "see" code pages:
http://tinyurl.com/2hqznv
(short for http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pcomhelp/v5r9/
index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.pcomm.doc/admin_guide16.htm)
In the search field in the top left, type "code page" and "GO"
--
Peter Hunkeler
Credit Suisse
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