EBCDIC 285
Encyclopedia
IBM code page 285 is an EBCDIC
code page
with full Latin-1-charset used in IBM mainframe
s. It is used in Ireland
and the United Kingdom
.
CCSID
1146 is the Euro currency update of code page/CCSID 285. Byte 9F is replaced ¤ with € in that code page.
For other English speaking countries, see EBCDIC code page 037
.
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is an 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems....
code page
Code page
Code page is another term for character encoding. It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language. The term code page originated from IBM's EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, but many vendors use this term including Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle Corporation...
with full Latin-1-charset used in IBM mainframe
Mainframe computer
Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...
s. It is used in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
CCSID
CCSID
CCSID is an abbreviation used by IBM to mean "Coded Character Set Identifier". It is a 16-bit number that represents a specific encoding of a specific code page...
1146 is the Euro currency update of code page/CCSID 285. Byte 9F is replaced ¤ with € in that code page.
For other English speaking countries, see EBCDIC code page 037
EBCDIC 037
IBM code page 37 is an EBCDIC code page with the full Latin-1 character set used in IBM mainframes. It is used in some English and Portuguese speaking countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States....
.
Codepage layout
| EBCDIC code page 00285 (Ireland, UK) | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| —0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 | —A | —B | —C | —D | —E | —F | |
| | | | | | | ||||||||||||||
- 40 : space character
- 41 : nonbreaking space
- CA : soft hyphen
- FF : control character ( EBCDIC )
External links
- [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00285.pdf Code page 285]