Not quite.

There are multiple EBCDIC code pages and multiple EBCDIC code pages, but ASCII 
is a single 7-bit character set. There are multiple code pages that match ASCII 
at 0-127 or a proper subset of that, e.g., 437, 850, 8859-*.

UTF-16 is a transform of Unicode, encoding 20-bit bytes using 16-bit bytes or 
pairs of them. The different code pages indicate the order of the 8-bit bytes 
within the 16-bit bytes; all else is the same.

UTF-8 is also a Unicode transform, and includes the same characters as UTF-16. 
There are characters not included in Unicode, but I don't know of any sch that 
are in an EBCDIC code page.


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

EBCDIC, EBCDIC DBCS, UTF-16, and ASCII all require the user to know
the code page for the data set.  UTF-8 uses up to 32 bits and
incorporates all languages include several DBCS languages from Asia.

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 10:07 PM Edward Finnell
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Guess I don't see the reasoning. IBM has had DBCS for decades.
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27004197&aid=1In a message 
> dated 2/9/2020 9:58:05 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
> Gil corrected me:
> > You're describing UTF-8.  UTF-16 uses 16-bit code units.>    
> > <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1ojCKog3IUmOhFh11CUwi9vf_AgUpgX8sIzXKSn-8YTxA7f75d-vQoq_6dpvz2XBV3Yx0KIEZcWprUg7jedflPFBvEXnvce1ZR8Uh0NXFCuWfGIa-dXRxqi2XM_fdzqhtaxSgeMFzhwrNkrcOQeko1ZjbozzYndx3DjPuy3BaOrGUa8VCt0Ja3nMKAjOrfc-zuZqIYMcD7VABm6T5-pGqgoMPk-0e6AaRdwPkS_yxJugErPeswls26xnC_AQD75pmpdZXGh4s6aDfZzUFz2lHZxZVeotE4mjD-5Yp_MbtKr-mqHJax5BotApPTmfpLuAL6ijxkHXu7f9-NKcPUigeYvL0j7afL8zyczwXAkqi5JP6LNc1Jjkn7XB4I9RcfQed/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUTF-16>
> >  
> > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1ojCKog3IUmOhFh11CUwi9vf_AgUpgX8sIzXKSn-8YTxA7f75d-vQoq_6dpvz2XBV3Yx0KIEZcWprUg7jedflPFBvEXnvce1ZR8Uh0NXFCuWfGIa-dXRxqi2XM_fdzqhtaxSgeMFzhwrNkrcOQeko1ZjbozzYndx3DjPuy3BaOrGUa8VCt0Ja3nMKAjOrfc-zuZqIYMcD7VABm6T5-pGqgoMPk-0e6AaRdwPkS_yxJugErPeswls26xnC_AQD75pmpdZXGh4s6aDfZzUFz2lHZxZVeotE4mjD-5Yp_MbtKr-mqHJax5BotApPTmfpLuAL6ijxkHXu7f9-NKcPUigeYvL0j7afL8zyczwXAkqi5JP6LNc1Jjkn7XB4I9RcfQed/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUTF-16
>
>
> Jeez, yes, of course. Brainfart! Thanks.
>
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