Re: EBCDIC Encoding question

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@compuserve.com)
Date: Mon Nov 02 1998 - 11:18:00 EST


Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

>> Could someone tell me the difference between EBCDIC 500 and open
>> EBCDIC?
>
> What do you mean by "open EBCDIC"?

Daniel may be referring to CECP 1047, which I have sometimes heard
referred to as "open EBCDIC." But see below.

> <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/EBCDIC/CP500.TXT>
> Belgium, Switzerland, and International CECP
> (this was meant to become "the" international CECP, but this attempt
> has failed; meanwhile, CECP 1046 is the agreed standard)

Otto, is this a typo for 1047, or is there really a new CECP 1046
that has replaced 1047?

> <ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1251.TXT>
> Windows code for Latin-1 countries (the "ANSI" misnomer)

This is definitely a typo. 1251 is the code page for Cyrillic.
1252 is the Latin-1 code page.

Thanks to Otto for his thorough answer to Daniel's question.

-Doug



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