Re: 8859-1, 8859-15, 1252 and Euro

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 14:52:10 EST

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"Robert A. Rosenberg" wrote:

> There is no two-way conversion between the glyphs in EBCDIC (the code
> for the 3270 and IBM 360/370/390 mainframes) and ASCII based codes
> (ISO-8859-x)

This is false. See ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/EBCDIC
for several Latin-1-repertoire EBCDIC code pages.

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