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How would you have handled the introduction of the new glyph for the
euro? How would you know if your database would acurately compare its
representation of that character to whatever representation you were
asking the database to evaluate?
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H.
Lampert
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Codepages: Does anybody have any idea why . . .
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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JHHL
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