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Ascii text editor ?
Hell no. I edit in
EBCDIC and your
system converts.
EBCDIC character set
EBCDIC which stands for the Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, is an 8 bit character encoding used on IBM mainframes and AS/400s.
Single byte EBCDIC takes up eight bits, which are divided in two pieces. The first four bits are called the zone and represent the category of the character, whereas the last four bits are the called the digit and identify the specific character.
d h EBCDIC ASCII
0 00 NUL Null NUL Null
1 01 SOH Start of Header STX Start of Header
2 02 STX Start of Text SOT Start of Text
3 03 ETX End of Text ETX End of Text
4 04 PF Punch Off EOT End of Transmission
5 05 HT Horizontal Tab ENQ Enquiry
6 06 LC Lower Case ACK Acknowledge
7 07 DEL Delete BEL Bell
8 08 BS BackSpace
9 09 HT Horizontal Tabulation
10 0A SMM Start of Manual Message LF Line Feed
11 0B VT Vertical Tabulation VT Vertical Tabulation
12 0C FF Form Feed FF Form Feed
13 0D CR Carriage Return CR Carriage Return
14 0E SO Shift Out SO Shift Out
15 0F SI Shift In SI Shift In
16 10 DLE Data Link Escape DLE Data Link Escape
17 11 DC1 Device Control 1 DC1 Device Control 1 (XON)
18 12 DC2 Device Control 2 DC2 Device Control 2
19 13 TM Tape Mark DC3 Device Control 3 (XOFF)
20 14 RES Restore DC4 Device Control 4
21 15 NL New Line NAK Negative acknowledge
22 16 BS Backspace SYN Synchronous Idle
23 17 IL Idle ETB End of Transmission Block
24 18 CAN Cancel CAN Cancel
25 19 EM End of Medium EM End of Medium
26 1A CC Cursor Control SUB Substitute
27 1B CU1 Customer Use 1 ESC Escape
28 1C IFS Interchange File Separator FS File Separator
29 1D IGS Interchange Group Separator GS Group Separator
30 1E IRS Interchange Record Separator RS Record Separator
31 1F IUS Interchange Unit Separator US Unit Separator
32 20 DS Digit Select [Space] Space
33 21 SOS Start of Significance ! Exclamation mark
34 22 FS Field Separator " Quotes
35 23 # Hash
36 24 BYP Bypass $ Dollar
37 25 LF Line Feed % Percent
38 26 ETB End of Transmission Block & Ampersand
39 27 ESC Escape ' Apostrophe
40 28 ( Open
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