EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

"Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana."
-Groucho Marx

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What is EBCDIC? from the Indiana University Knowledge Base
DRAFT Unicode Technical Report #16 - UTF-EBCDIC - EBCDIC-Friendly UCS Transformation Format
Punched Card Codes - shows EBCDIC history.
Convert comp3 data in ebcdic file to ascii format
ASCII & EBCDIC TABLES for 2780/3780 File Transfer Protocol - product specific but useful info...
Techadvice.com's EBCDIC page with MS-ACCESS ASCII to EBCDIC formula.
EBCDIC characters for MPE users - You probably don't run the MPE operating system but this page explains ASCII to EBCDIC issues
Overview of the Apache EBCDIC Port
GNU recode program - For you Unix weanies
Columbia Computer Center C code - C programming
Prof. Murphy's Computer Science 507 Miscellaneous Notes: Strings - discusses ASCII and EBCDIC
Perl:
- EBCDIC Platforms on the perlport - Writing portable Perl page
- Convert::EBCDIC - Perl code
- Perl - Convert::IBM390 -- functions for manipulating mainframe data

And we can all use some humor sometimes: see the EBCDIC entry in the Jargon file.

General character encoding pages

Guidelines to use 8-bit character codes - Everything you wanted to know!!!
The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup
Character Set Formats - European Commission's Open Information Interchange
IBM developerworks Unicode page
RFC1345 - Internet Standards: Character Mnemonics & Character Sets
ASCII from the Jargon file.

EBCDIC-based Operating Systems:

IBM:
- AS/400
- S/390
  - z/OS (aka OS/390 aka MVS)
  - z/VM (aka VM)
  - VSE
Siemens AG's BS2000/OSD

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