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by WorldMaker 3208 days ago
Someone should write up EBCDIC-based UTF as an RFC. I'm sure that there's at least one COBOL programmer out there that has been waiting for that for decades.

ETA: Mostly a joke, but it would also fit right in with things like WTF-8 (https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/)

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It wasn't a joke. UTF-EBCDIC is a Unicode Technical Report:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr16/

aw, now i'm cranky again. lol