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

All of the current IBM platforms that I can think of support UTF8 and UTF16.
Unicode support in database for instance has been around since V3 days on
AS/400 (though UTF8 wasnt' until V5R something or other). Have you migrated
your EBCDIC data to Unicode?

Do you really want IBM to just get rid of EBCDIC as you suggest/ask? Do you
think existing users might be a little upset if IBM were to do so?

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Lukas Beeler <
lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 17:26, 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?

What i don't get is why new IBM doesn't get rid of EBCDIC and move
over to UTF-8/UTF-16.

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