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From: dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews)
Subject: Re: SOS:  C Routines for ASCII to EBCDIC Conversion and Vice-versa
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 18:10:48 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.181048.20119@bilver.uucp>
References: <1991Jun19.190752.28034@ssdc.honeywell.com> <1991Jun20.160334.11278@gdr.bath.ac.uk>

In article <1991Jun20.160334.11278@gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>For a real real definitive answer, you'll have to get friendly with
>someone in IBM.  I know THEY are trying to come up with a definitive
>ASCII<->EBCDIC mapping as part of their SAA project; to dig themselves
>out of the hole caused by the fact that IBM/PCs speak ASCII, while IBM
>mainframes speak EBCDIC.  God only knows what mapping they'll end up
>with.

I believe the IBM effort is leading toward Unicode, a double-byte set.   
As I recall, a recent SHARE-wide survey indicated that SHARE members
were not happy with the Unicode idea (which will STILL be unusable in
parts of the world).

I don't think the ASCII/EBCDIC dichotomy will ever be resolved.

- Dave