Re: Difference between EBCDIC and EDCDIC charter set?

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I need to convert an EDCDIC file (received from mainframe) to ASCII. In
> most of the documents EDCDIC and EBCDIC is used interchangeably. My
> initial research suggests that one is a subset of other.

This is just an educated guess, but I'd say that "EDCDIC" is probably a typo.

But please keep in mind that there are a great many EBCDIC code pages (you
learn about these things when you're designing an emulator!). While the
letters and digits are all in the same place, a lot of the other
characters move around from one code page to another; make sure you're
using the correct one!

Moreover, since it's from a mainframe, rather than midrange, system, it's
entirely possible that the code page charts in the back of the 5250 data
stream book will be of only limited usefulness.

--
JHHL
Who was first exposed to EBCDIC in high school!