• Urist@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

      I guess I should refrain from writing text in my own language using non-ASCII symbols due to American exceptionalism and piety.

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        I haven’t seen EBCDIC used anywhere other than the curriculum of my “Fundamentals of Programming” class 25 years ago.

        • Billegh@lemmy.world
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          19 days ago

          It was IBM’s binary to character transform. DB2 can still use it if you configure it to do so. Or was at least as of the version from 1998 that I had to replace.