EBCDIC <--> ASCII conversion

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Oct25.140442 at devils.rice.edu> schafer at devils.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer) writes:
>||> However, unlike say ISO646 or ASCII, there is no one standard
>EBCDIC.
>To be fair, there is no *one* standard ASCII, either, if you consider
>ASCII to include any of the several European versions of ASCII...

There are no, repeat *no*, European versions of ASCII.  ASCII is a single
precisely-specified character code with no versions or ambiguities.  It
is one of a family of codes derived from ISO646.  There are a number of
other 646-derived codes in use in Europe; they are not ASCII.

It is true that the existence of a variety of 7-bit codes has turned out
to be a major nuisance, which is why there has been considerable work on
unified codes like ISO Latin.
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The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
unparsable.             --Rob Pike     |  henry at zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry