Is there a defined klingon code page?

> On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Going just from memory here -- too lazy or too inconsequential to look it up.
> 
> 1. Yes, the bit has gone away.
> 2. It never did much. After all, CLC or MVC does not care if the data is 
> ASCII, EBCDIC or Klingon. All it ever did was control the sign nibble in 
> packed results: C and D for EBCDIC, some other sign configurations for ASCII.
> 
> Charles
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 8:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...)
> 
>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 06:54:56 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote:
>> 
>> Indeed, there's a bit in the PSW indicating whether it is running in 
>> ASCII or EBCDIC, isn't there? :-)
> Used to be.  I doubt that it's still functional.  Did COBOL ever exploit it?
> 
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