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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Translation
Message-ID: <1387@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 12:01:55 GMT
References: <425@minya.UUCP> <1622@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
Lines: 36
Keywords: ASCII EBCDIC Translation Character Code

In article <1622@van-bc.UUCP> skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) writes:
>In article <425@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>[stuff about ASCII-EBCDIC translation]
>
>The upper *and* lower case alphabet and the digits together make up 62 of
>these characters.  Anyone have suggestions for the two more to go?  (I think
>'*' and '#', among others, could do it.)

Careful with the '#' sign. Some IBM systems define that symbol as a
delete character symbol. You'd probably be better off using '*' and
'$' -- both of which have defined meanings in most IBM languages, so
they don't play fast and loose with them.

>Samuel Lam     <Samuel.Lam@van-bc.UUCP> or
>{ihnp4!alberta,watmath,uw-beaver}!ubc-vision!van-bc!skl

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