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		layer8 on Oct 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR I would have expected IBM to have defined UEBCDIC-8 by now, where the single-byte encodings are identical to EBCDIC ;). Those only include punctuation and control characters though, so that might be the problem.

luckystarr on Oct 25, 2023 [–]

Actually, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC

layer8 on Oct 25, 2023 | [–]

Hah! Somehow this was in the back of my head, but I couldn’t immediately find it.

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