01-04-2013
Yes, IBM is a world unto itself, and ebcdic is the dominant charset, and even then to print right you may need the code page. BCDIC was the 6 bit code, Binary Coded Decimal Info Code, so called because it was closely related to card codes with a decimal basis, where A is 21 base 8, B is 22, I is 31 (20+9), then J is 41 through R at 51, then / is 61, S is 62 through Z is 71. The r-x-0 rows of the card became upper bits, and 1-9 were binary coded. EBCDIC is BCDIC Extended to 8 bits.
You can probably get enca binary or source, and python and chardet for free, and install them.
http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Enca http://www.python.org/getit/other/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet
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mime::base64::urlsafe
MIME::Base64::URLSafe(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation MIME::Base64::URLSafe(3pm)
NAME
MIME::Base64::URLSafe - Perl version of Python's URL-safe base64 codec
SYNOPSIS
use MIME::Base64::URLSafe;
$encoded = urlsafe_b64encode('Alladdin: open sesame');
$decoded = urlsafe_b64decode($encoded);
DESCRIPTION
This module is a perl version of python's URL-safe base64 encoder / decoder.
When embedding binary data in URL, it is preferable to use base64 encoding. However, two characters ('+' and '/') used in the standard
base64 encoding have special meanings in URLs, often leading to re-encoding with URL-encoding, or worse, interoperability problems.
To overcome the problem, the module provides a variation of base64 codec compatible with python's urlsafe_b64encode / urlsafe_b64decode.
Modification rules from base64:
use '-' and '_' instead of '+' and '/'
no line feeds
no trailing equals (=)
The following functions are provided:
urlsafe_b64encode($str)
urlsafe_b64decode($str)
If you prefer not to import these routines to your namespace, you can call them as:
use MIME::Base64::URLSafe ();
$encoded = MIME::Base64::URLSafe::encode($decoded);
$decoded = MIME::Base64::URLSafe::decode($encoded);
SEE ALSO
MIME::Base64
Fore more discussion on using base64 encoding in URL applications, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_Applications
AUTHOR
Kazuho Oku <kazuho ___at___ labs.cybozu.co.jp>
Copyright (C) 2006 Cybozu Labs, Inc.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
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