Re: Codepages: Does anybody have any idea why . . .

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM did not create all of the various EBCDIC code pages in isolation. The
code pages were designed by various work/study groups. Within each group
were representatives of IBM, government bodies associated with the
specific language, and other interested parties.

Politics, in the 60s and still today, have a lot to do with how standards
are defined. Unicode for instance has been strongly influenced by government
requirements. Standards don't become "real" standards if nations refuse to
use/allow them...

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anybody know why it is that IBM came up with a whole bunch of
> EBCDIC codepages that are really just permutations of the same characters?
>
> I mean, I can understand Turkish having its own codepage, given that it
> has a few extra letters not appearing in any of the regular European
> codepages, and I can understand languages that don't use the Roman
> alphabet at all having their own codepages, but . . .
>
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