EBCDIC to ASCII

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Wed Dec 28 12:51:25 EST 2016


On 12/28/2016 08:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format
> to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8?
>

Hopefully this is a year-end joke. Ha! Good one.

If not, here are some tables. I can't think of anything other than a 
huge switch statement that would do this, and iterating through the text 
character by character.

http://www.astrodigital.org/digital/ebcdic.html

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGH4D_14.1.0/com.ibm.xlf141.aix.doc/language_ref/asciit.html

--  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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