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by xxxxxxxx 974 days ago
It might not be as easy as you think if the system has somehow survived without an upgrade for decades. Who knows, maybe it's that ancient?

Back in the day I worked on CODASYL style databases (IDMS) that was EBCDIC. This is before relational databases were a thing. We had no PCs: all of the companies’ data was is in the Mainframe in EBCDIC. No ASCII anywhere, let alone UTF-8.