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Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

/eb' s*-dik/, /eb' see`dik/, /eb' k*-dik/, /ee`bik' dik`/, /*-bik' dik`/ (EBCDIC) A proprietary 8-bit href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=character set">character set used on href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM">IBM href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=dinosaurs">dinosaurs, the href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=AS/400">AS/400, and href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=e-Server">e-Server. EBCDIC is an extension to 8 bits of BCDIC (Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), an earlier 6-bit character set used on IBM computers. EBCDIC was [first?] used on the successful href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=System/360">System/360, anounced on 1964-04-07, and survived for many years despite the almost universal adoption of href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ASCII">ASCII elsewhere. Was this concern for href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=backward compatibility">backward compatibility or, as many believe, a marketing strategy to lock in IBM customers? IBM created 57 national EBCDIC character sets and an International Reference Version (IRV) based on href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ISO 646">ISO 646 (and hence ASCII compatible). Documentation on these was not easily accessible making international exchange of data even between IBM mainframes a tricky task. US EBCDIC uses more or less the same characters as href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ASCII">ASCII, but different href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=code points">code points. It has non-contiguous letter sequences, some ASCII characters do not exist in EBCDIC (e.g. href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=square brackets">square brackets), and EBCDIC has some (href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=cent sign">cent sign, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=not sign">not sign) not in ASCII. As a consequence, the translation between ASCII and EBCDIC was never officially completely defined. Users defined one translation which resulted in a so-called de-facto EBCDIC containing all the characters of ASCII, that all ASCII-related programs use. Some printers, telex machines, and even electronic cash registers can speak EBCDIC, but only so they can converse with IBM mainframes. For an in-depth discussion of character code sets, and full translation tables, see {Guidelines on 8-bit character codes (ftp://ftp.ulg.ac.be/pub/docs/iso8859/iso8859.networking)}. {A history of character codes (http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html)}. Here is a simple translation table: Least significant nibble -> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 0 ... controls ... 1 2 3 ... controls ... 4 Ã¢ Ã¤ Ã Ã¡ Ã£ Ã¥ Ã§ Ã± Â¢ . < ( + | 5 & Ã© Ãª Ã« Ã¨ Ã Ã® Ã¯ Ã¬ ÃŸ ! $ * ) ^ 6 - / Ã‚ Ã„ Ã€ Ã Ãƒ Ã… Ã‡ Ã‘ Â¦ , % _ > ? 7 Ã¸ Ã‰ ÃŠ Ã‹ Ãˆ Ã ÃŽ Ã ÃŒ ` : # @ ' = " 8 Ã˜ a b c d e f g h i Â« Â» Ã° Ã½ Ã¾ Â± 9 Â° j k l m n o p q r Âª Âº Ã¦ Â¸ Ã† Â¤ A Âµ ~ s t u v w x y z Â¡ Â¿ Ã [ Ãž Â® B Â¬ Â£ Â¥ Â· Â© Â§ Â¶ Â¼ Â½ Â¾ Ã Â¨ Â¯ ] Â´ Ã— C { A B C D E F G H I Â Ã´ Ã¶ Ã² Ã³ Ãµ D } J K L M N O P Q R Â¹ Ã» Ã¼ Ã¹ Ãº Ã¿ E Ã· S T U V W X Y Z Â² Ã” Ã– Ã’ Ã“ Ã• F 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Â³ Ã› Ãœ Ã™ Ãš E.g. the EBCDIC code for "A" is href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=hexadecimal">hexadecimal "C1". (2002-03-03)

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