For the ISO 8859 code pages a round trip is possible at the expense of mismatched semantics; I'm not sure that all of the PC code pages populate all 256 code points. I'd probably opt for UTF-8 to preserve semantic fidelity.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Charles Mills [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools I suspect the OP meant "ASCII" in the common (but granted pedantically incorrect) sense of "one or more of the various code pages that use X'20' for space, X'41' for A, X'30' for zero, and so forth, or a variant thereof." Given that meaning, round trip is eminently possible. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools Round trip is not possible with ASCII. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
