RE: Code Page

Thanks James. -s

Sudha Ramanujan
SunGard Futures Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: James H H Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Code Page

<SRamanujan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> What is the Code Page? 

A code page is a specific mapping (or in the case of 
Unicode, a specific subset of a larger mapping) of binary 
values into character glyphs. For example, Turkish EBCDIC 
(CCSID 1026) is a different code page from US-English 
EBCDIC, which replaces the Latin 1 upper- and lower-case 
characters "Eth," "Thorn," and "A-Ring" with upper- and 
lower-case versions of "G-Breve" and "S-Cedilla," as well 
as a dotless lowercase i, and a dotted uppercase I, and 
rearranges all but the "invariant" characters a bit.

The common Western European EBCDIC code pages, and the 
"Multinational" code page, are just slightly different 
permutations of the Latin 1 characters, using slight 
variations on EBCDIC encoding.

Naturally, ASCII/ANSI and EBCDIC use completely different 
code pages.

Generally, if you use an existing file whose code page is 
both supported and correctly identified, EDTF should use 
the correct code page. And even if it isn't correctly 
identified, it may very well be able to correctly deduce 
the code page from the contents of the file.

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JHHL

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JHHL
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