There are many EBCDIC codepages. DBCS is used by japan, China, Korea and Vietnam. Our Japanese customers use EBCDIC codepage 930. Our Taiwanese customers use EBCDIC codepage 937.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 20, 2020, at 8:54 AM, Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm writing a new OS for PC hardware (an exercise started during > lockdown/furlough) and I wondered about files from other systems. Is there > much in DBCS on mainframe systems these days, or is it still mainly the > same old 8-bit EBCDIC, please? > > I still have to decide whether to support UTF-8 and/or UTF-32, of course :-) > > Roo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
