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character sets

#5412
From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 04:06
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Ok, here's your chance to tell the world about the weird and
proprietary character sets you have come across. Forget anything before
ISO-8859.

To prime the pump,

ASCII
EBCDIC
RAD50
	DEC's method of packing three characters into 16 bits. 50 octal
	was 40 decimal, so it had 26 alphabets, 10 digits, and I forget
	what the other four were.
CDC-CYBER
	6 bits. Didn't have a newline character, so that was
	indicated by a certain number (12?) of binary zeros at the start
	of a word. Unfortunately colon was octal 00, so colons at the
	end of lines (e.g. Pascal cases) were at risk of being lost.
	There were variants for different print chains.
FIELDATA
	Don't remember anything about this except that it was on
	a Univac and I never used it.

(Your contribution here.)
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From: k...@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
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Subject: character sets
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