nteresting to me is what turned out to be
the solution:
The OP in the forum thread that prompted my query noted that the FTP
server he's using is just old enough that it includes an EBCDIC-to-ASCII
algo built in, so that making the FTP request with "text" mode yields
usable ASCII
sez Richard Gaskin :
> Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format
> to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8?
Doubtful. If ESR is right about its "at least six mutually incompatible
versions... and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters... (exac
Ee.
> On Dec 28, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Richard Gaskin
> wrote:
>
> Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format to
> anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8?
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, M
Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 12/28/2016 08:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding
>> format to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8?
>
> Hopefully this is a year-end joke. Ha! Good one.
You might think so, but I'm actually asking fo
:
http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/EBCDIC-to-ASCII-tp4711222p4711224.html
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On 12/28/2016 08:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format
to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8?
Hopefully this is a year-end joke. Ha! Good one.
If not, here are some tables. I can't think of anything other than a
huge
Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format
to anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
