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From: schafer@devils.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer)
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Subject: Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII conversion
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Date: 25 Oct 90 19:04:42 GMT
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In article <MEISSNER.90Oct24150859@osf.osf.org>, meissner@osf.org
(Michael Meissner) writes:
||> However, unlike say ISO646 or ASCII, there is no one standard
EBCDIC.
To be fair, there is no *one* standard ASCII, either, if you consider
ASCII to include any of the several European versions of ASCII available
with ISO numbers which I don't remember off the top of my head.  That's
why ISO has been spending so much time over the past several years
working up new code point standards.