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Article #5412character sets
From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 04:06
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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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!eru!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.oz.au!csis!ken From: k...@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: character sets Message-ID: <1990Oct15.040634.26899@csis.dit.csiro.au> Date: 15 Oct 90 04:06:34 GMT Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology Lines: 23 Posted: Mon Oct 15 05:06:34 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit