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

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this another reason your wife doesn't take you to parties anymore?

:)


Bruce Vining wrote:
> A very good book discussing this is Coded Character Sets: History and
> Development by Charles Mackenzie. The book is part of IBMs Systems
> Programming Series from way back when.
>
> The book is however thirty years old, so don't expect too much on more
> recent standards :)
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> > 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:
> >
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> > > 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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