Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII

2008-12-08 Thread martinjamesevans
On Dec 5, 2:13 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Dec 4, 4:45 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in > >>> converting some bytes from EBCDIC i

Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Ströder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 4, 4:45 pm, Michael Ströder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in converting some bytes from EBCDIC into ASCII. Which EBCDIC variant? sEBCDIC = unicode(sSource, 'cp500', 'ignore')

Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII

2008-12-04 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've tried starting with something like this, but I assume it is > expecting the source to be in unicode already? > > e.g. (pretend the second half are EBCDIC characters) > > sAll = "This bit is ASCII, " Why pretend? You can use this: "abcde\x81\x82\x83\x84" > sSou

Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Ströder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in converting some bytes from EBCDIC into ASCII. Which EBCDIC variant? sEBCDIC = unicode(sSource, 'cp500', 'ignore') Are you sure CP500 is the EBCDIC variant for the language you want? http://www.ietf.

EBCDIC <--> ASCII

2008-12-04 Thread martinjamesevans
I'm having a problem trying to use the codecs package to aid me in converting some bytes from EBCDIC into ASCII. I have some 8bit text that is in mixed format. I extract the bytes that are coded for EBCDIC and would like to display them correctly. The bytes that are EBCDIC could values 0-255, I'm