Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Translation Message-ID: <448@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 87 15:57:34 GMT References: <425@minya.UUCP> <1622@van-bc.UUCP> Reply-To: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.) Lines: 14 Keywords: ASCII EBCDIC Translation Character Code In article <1622@van-bc.UUCP> skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) writes: | In article <425@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: | )... Are there 64 codes that can be trusted to any ASCII/EBCDIC translators, | )and will come out the same when fed to any other EBCDIC/ASCII translator? | | The upper *and* lower case alphabet and the digits together make up 62 of | these characters. Anyone have suggestions for the two more to go? (I think | '*' and '#', among others, could do it.) If you really want to be portable, don't use '#', since it is a national character set symbol. I would recomend, something like '+' and '-' (or '.' and ',') myself. -- Michael Meissner, Data General. Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner Arpa/Csnet: meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM