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by plank 3740 days ago
Missing: how defaults are wrong between UTF8 and EBCDIC. E.g. where a character in UTF8 outside the MES2 subset ('latin1') will be mapped to the x3F 'unknown' character of EBCDIC, which will be mapped back to the x1A character ('CTRL-z') of UTF8...