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 for a forum member:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28576
Oddly enough, he says he has an FTP client that will do the translation
automatically for him when he chooses "text" transfer mode.
While reading up on this I found that the Wikipedia page for that format
has a section titled "Criticism and humor", which includes this gem:
Professor: "So the American government went to IBM to come up with
an encryption standard, and they came up with—"
Student: "EBCDIC!"
:)
> If not, here are some tables. I can't think of anything other than a
> huge switch statement that would do this, and iterating through the
> text character by character.
>
> http://www.astrodigital.org/digital/ebcdic.html
>
>
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGH4D_14.1.0/com.ibm.xlf141.aix.doc/language_ref/asciit.html
Yeahm, probably not hard, but I'm not in a position to write it for him
and was hoping we might have something ready-to-use in our community
that I could point him to.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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