Re: Register EBCDIC Character Set "OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1"

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:49:51PM +0200, jean-frederic clere wrote:
> Register EBCDIC Character Set "OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1"
> 
> This document provides information about character encoding 
> OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1
> (Fujitsu-Siemens standard mainframe EBCDIC encoding, which is widely spread 
> in
> Europe) which is a de-facto standard in Europe for information interchange 
> on
> BS2000 mainframe systems of Fujitsu-Siemens Computer.
> 
> The proposed character set "OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1" is currently used by a large 
> user
> community using BS2000 mainframe systems.
> 
> Originally, specification of proposed standard "OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1" was
> officially adopted by the BS2000 systems and is documented in the Fujitsu-
> Siemens Manual of the product XHCS
> http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com/servers/bs2_man/man_us/dcam/v14_0/xhcs.pdf
> (page 136f).
> 
> OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1 is developed as a single byte encoding for all 
> contemporary
> characters.
> 
> 
> The reference table between OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1 and Unicode is shown below.
> 
> 
> Unicode mapping:
> 
> General notes: #
>    Column #1 is the OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1 code (in hex)
>    Column #2 is the Unicode (in hex as 0xXXXX)

Coloumn 2 could also be described as the ISO/IEC 10646 canonical code.
Maybe say "ISO/IEC 10646/Unicode"

>    Column #3 is the RFC1345 name (follows a comment sign, '#')

Hmm, coloumn 3 is a name that is referenced in rfc 1345, but it is more
correctly described as the ISO/IEC 10646 or ISO/IEC 4873 long 
character name., as RFC 1345 took these names from these sources. 

Best regards
Keld Simonsen
Editor RFC 1345