RE: Where is the First> Last> convention documented?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2007 - 16:54:48 CDT

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    > > Some were, and some were not. The IBM EBCDIC control functions
    > > differ significantly from the ISO 6429 C0 and C1 controls.
    > > See, for example:
    > >
    > > http://www.barrcentral.com/help/spool/B_ASCII_and_EBCDIC_Standards.htm
    >
    > I don't take this as a reference for EBCDIC. The mappings betweenEBCDIC and
    > ISO 8859-1 were published since long by IBM and prevail. I have never seen
    > the differences you expose here (possibly a fantasy from the author of this
    > site, due to some specific use in some old IBM-specific application, and
    > assumption that the use in such application was changing the mapping.)

    O.k., smartypants. Would you take *this* as more definitive?

    http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/cdra/appendix_g.jsp

    --Ken



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