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:
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>>The ASCII is CP 285 UK ..but we have to support all .I am making sure I
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> 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.
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> And from my reading, code page 285 is an EBCDIC code page.
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> 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.
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> .phsiii
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