On 12 January 2014 10:21, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > on 01/09/2014 at 09:00 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> said: > >>There is no general way to convert UNICODE into EBCDIC, > > There are EBCDIC transforms for Unicode. I'm not sure whether that qulifies > as EBCDIC.
Exactly as much as UTF-8 qualifies as ASCII, that is to say, not at all. In both cases (UTF-8 and UTF-EBCDIC), there are several characteristics of the encoded result that are convenient in the respective environments. In particular, for legacy applications, the most often used characters in single-byte ASCII/EBCDIC are encoded by the same byte value in UTF-xxx. But no one would say that UTF-8 *is* ASCII, or that UTF-EBCDIC *is* EBCDIC. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
