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What support does C++ have for EBCDIC?
by slavik81 9y ago
What support does C++ have for EBCDIC?
- WalterBright 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#Compatibility_with_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#Compatibility_with_ASCI... Most programmers manipulate characters as if they were ASCII, and that code will break if presented with EBCDIC. The C++ Standard is carefully worded to not assume ASCII encoding. C++ presumably supports other encodings, but I've never heard of another one that will work. There's RADIX50, but that will never work with C++, for the simple reason that there aren't enough characters in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50 You can also see the EBCDIC support in oddities like the digraph support.