EBCDIC

File Format
Name	EBCDIC
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Character encoding EBCDIC
PRONOM	fmt/159

EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is a family of character encodings. EBCDIC was used in a number of old IBM systems in the pre-PC era. The IBM PC, however, used ASCII like most modern computers.

List of encodings

• CP037 - code table
• CP038
• CP273
• CP274
• CP275
• CP277
• CP278
• CP280
• CP281
• CP284
• CP285 - code table
• CP290
• CP297
• CP420
• CP423
• CP424 - code table
• CP500 - code table
• CP851
• CP855
• CP857
• CP860
• CP861
• CP863
• CP864
• CP865
• CP868
• CP869
• CP870
• CP871
• CP875 - code table
• CP880
• CP891
• CP903
• CP904
• CP905
• CP918
• CP1026 - code table
• CP1047 - code table
• CP1140 - code table
• CP1148 - code table
• CP1155 - code table
• CP4971 - code table
• CP9067 - code table
• CP12712 - code table
• EBCDIC 6-Bit - code table
• UTF-EBCDIC

Links

• Wikipedia entry on EBCDIC
• http://www.simotime.com/asc2ebc1.htm - ASCII to EBCDIC translation tables
• http://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/euroml/section05.html - A history and chart of EBCDIC