Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > EBCDIC is not a subset of ASCII, I'm pretty sure. Any translation is > > going to be lossy. > > IIRC, aside from the control codes (which are virtually unused anyway, > and thusly not an issue) it is.
If you look at the top left-hand corner of a British computer keyboard you see a key labelled with these 3 characters: ¬ ` | However, | is usually typed with a key in the bottom left-hand corner labelled with '¦'. Apparently, the characters ¬ and ¦ still appear on keyboards because they were in EBCDIC. See /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/EBCDIC-UK. The only other non-ASCII printable character on a British keyboard is '£', and I don't think EBCDIC had any other printable characters not in ASCII. Edmund
