It may also be in the form of supporting older file formats that may have been encoding in non-ASCII characters, such as EBCDIC
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The language is based on the EBCDIC character set, but also supports UTF-8, UTF-16 and many other character sets.
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The number of unique characters that can be transmitted is therefore limited to 59 for Transcode, 123 for USASCII, or 251 for EBCDIC.
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Linux on z supports Unicode and ASCII just like any other Linux distribution & mdash; it is not an EBCDIC-based operating system.
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The printer routine, however, works with text in 8-bit EBCDIC with two characters per word, requiring a 40-word buffer.
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To stop the card reader as soon as possible, a program could check for the Hollerith code of / before even converting the card to EBCDIC.
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For example, z / OS supports Unicode ( preferring UTF-16 specifically ), but z / OS only has limited support for UTF-EBCDIC.
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It used the same EBCDIC character encoding as the 360 and was mostly programmed in Fortran, which was relatively easy to adapt to larger machines when necessary.
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EBCDIC ( " the other " major 8-bit character code ) likewise developed many extended variants ( more than 186 EBCDIC codepages ) over the decades.
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EBCDIC ( " the other " major 8-bit character code ) likewise developed many extended variants ( more than 186 EBCDIC codepages ) over the decades.
