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Subject: Re: Qshell jar zipped file has strange characters
From: Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:48:49 +0100
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CCSID is an IBM "term" but certainly not an IBM concept and as far as saying everything on the PC was ascii, well that's oversimplifying it. MS-DOS used code page 437 which as I said was what the original zip spec stated the file names should be in - and it still does - although there's an extension flag that allows an archiver to also include names in UTF8. Anyway I think we're beginning to start veering of topic so I'll leave it at that.

On 3/3/2015 2:25 AM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:

"CCSID" is an IBM-only concept, part of IBM's "Character Data Representation Architecture" (CDRA).. "Coded Character Set ID" (CCSID) does not exist on most other non-IBM platforms.

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