Encoding iso-8859-16

Hi I am running the following script on EBCDIC use Encode; $string = "a"; $enc_string = encode("iso-8859-16", $string); print "\n String: $string\n"; print "\n enc_string: $enc_string\n"; The output: String: a enc_string: ñ (This is the character for codepoint \xF1 on iso-8859-16) What is th

Transliteration operator(tr//)on EBCDIC platform

Hi I am trying to run this script on an EBCDIC platform using perl-5.8.6 ($a = "\x89\x8a\x8b\x8c\x8d\x8f\x90\x91") =~ tr/\x89-\x91/X/; is($a, ""); The result I get is 'X«»ðý±°X' a) Is this happening since \x8a\x8b\x8c\x8d\x8f\x90 are the gapped characters in EBCDIC ? or b) Should