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Appendix A: EBCDIC/ASCII Translation
Tables
The LinkUp 5294 automatically translates ASCII characters to EBCDIC for all communications data
received from a terminal and performs EBCDIC to ASCII translation for all output to a keyboard/CRT
or printer.
For keyboard input, the ASCII 0 to 1F hex values are implemented by the LinkUp 5294 as valid for 5250
keyboard function sequences only; this means they are used in a string of characters only to emulate
5250 keyboard functions, such as ENTER, CMD 1 through 24, etc.
NOTE
Sequences appropriate to these keyboard functions depend on the terminal module.
See Appendix G for the sequences for your terminal.
The EBCDIC to ASCII code translations (and vice versa) are based as far as possible on character
equivalence. However, in certain cases this is not possible. Accordingly, the following special translations
are applicable:
EBCDIC
ASCII
¢ (4A)
[ (5B)
| (6A)
] (5D)
¬ (5F)
^ (5E)
| (4F)
| (7C)
NOTE
EBCDIC values which do not have possible ASCII equivalents (other than those listed
above) are translated to the ASCII question mark (3F hex).
U.S. EBCDIC to ASCCII Data Translation Table
EBCDIC
ASCII
40
SP
20
SP
41
3F
?
42
3F
?
43
3F
?
44
3F
?
45
3F
?
46
3F
?
47
3F
?
48
3F
?
49
3F
?
4A
¢
5B
[
4B
.
2E
.
4C
<
3C
<
4D
(
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