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INTERCAL::Charset::EBCDIC(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation INTERCAL::Charset::EBCDIC(3pm) NAME
Charset::EBCDIC - allows to use EBCDIC string constants in ASCII programs (and v.v.) SYNOPSIS
use Charset::EBCDIC 'ascii2abcdic'; my $a = ebcdic2ascii "(EBCDIC text)"; DESCRIPTION
Charset::EBCDIC defines functions to convert between a subset of ASCII and a subset of nonstandard EBCDIC (since there isn't such a thing as a standard EBCDIC we defined our own variant which is guaranteed to be incompatible with all versions of EBCDIC used by IBM hardware - however, when we have chosen a code for a character, we have made sure that at least one - but certainly not all - IBM models used that same code, so the choice cannot be criticised). If you really want to know, several variants of EBCDIC are listed in RFC 1345, which is available from the usual sources. Two functions, ebcdic2ascii and ascii2ebcdic are exportable but not exported by default. They do the obvious thing to their first argument and return the transformed string. EBCDIC CHARACTER TABLE
The following are the characters recognised. The ones shown as 2 letter abbreviations cannot be translated to ASCII (except for the control characters, which do have an ASCII equivalent). + 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f Notes 00 OV TA LF CR OV=overstrike 10 TA=tab 20 LF=linefeed 30 CR=carr-return 40 SP CT . < ( + ! SP=space 50 & ] $ * ) ; NO CT=cents 60 - / XO | , % _ > ? NO=not-sign 70 : # @ ' = " XO=XOR(1) 80 a b c d e f g h i 90 j k l m n o p q r { [ a0 ~ s t u v w x y z RE RE=registered b0 ^ PO CO PO=pound c0 A B C D E F G H I CO=copyright d0 J K L M N O P Q R } e0 S T U V W X Y Z f0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DE DE=delete(1) The symbol for the INTECAL XOR operator, "V overstrike -". COPYRIGHT
This module is part of CLC-INTERCAL. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007 Claudio Calvelli, all rights reserved See the files README and COPYING in the distribution for information. SEE ALSO
A qualified psychiatrist. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-29 INTERCAL::Charset::EBCDIC(3pm)
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CONVICKT(1) General Commands Manual CONVICKT(1) NAME
convickt - convert INTERCAL files between formats SYNOPSIS
convickt incharset outcharset [paddingrule [arrayname]] DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the convickt command. Fuller documentation is available via the command info convickt convickt converts INTERCAL programs from one character set to another; it takes input from standard input and sends its output to standard output. OPTIONS
For incharset and outcharset atari Interpret the input as being ASCII-7 Atari syntax INTERCAL, as is used by the Atari INTERCAL-72 compiler, J-INTERCAL, and C-INTERCAL default syntax, or output in that syntax. baudot Interpret the input as being in CLC-INTERCAL's extended Baudot syntax, or output in that syntax. ebcdic Interpret the input as being in the CLC-INTERCAL dialect of EBCDIC, or output in that syntax. latin1 Interpret the input as being Latin-1 Princeton syntax INTERCAL, as is used by default by CLC-INTERCAL and also readable by C-INTER- CAL with the -X switch, or output in that syntax. For paddingrule zero Pad the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output with zeros. printable Set the values of the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output to try to cause the output to stay within character range 32-126. This option is the default. (Note that paddingrule is irrelevant for 8-bit character sets like Latin-1 and EBCDIC). random Pad the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output with random data, except that outputing an all-bits-zero octet is avoided. CAVEATS
Not all conversions are possible, due to the character sets having different characters available. In most cases, an unconvertible or invalid character will be converted to a 0 (padded appropriately); the exception is that if a tab cannot be converted, it will instead be converted to a single space (so that INTERCAL programs still run if converted to Baudot). Using atari as an input or output character set will literally convert characters which differ between Atari and Princeton syntax without checking to see whether they are being used as operators or not. If arrayname is given, then instead of outputting the converted text literally, it will be output as portable (that is, legal in INTER- CAL-72, C-INTERCAL, J-INTERCAL and CLC-INTERCAL) INTERCAL that dimensions the tail array given as arrayname and assigns each byte of the output to an element of that array; this is mostly useful for producing Baudot text for CLC-INTERCAL-style array IO. AUTHOR
convickt and this manual page were written by Alex Smith. CONVICKT(1)