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by pavlov 975 days ago
Maybe both? COBOL predates the first draft of ASCII by several years. Character sets were far from standardized in those days.
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noizejoy 974 days ago
Lots (most?) of classic COBOL used EBCDIC[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

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