Knowing what country the data is coming from would greatly reduce the possibilities to one or a handful of code pages.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > scott Ford wrote, in part: > >>The ASCII is CP 285 UK ..but we have to support all .I am making sure I > > > > That's not ASCII. This is the point others have been making: you can't > really say "ASCII" unless you mean x'00' through x'127' *and nothing else*: > all you can say is "It's not EBCDIC". Once you start talking other "code > pages", you either need to know which it is, or you have to make an > assumption. Period. > > > > And from my reading, code page 285 is an EBCDIC code page. > > > > Sorry to sound like a hardass about this, but I'm not sure your question has > a meaningful answer, based on what you've said so far. > > > > .phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
