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zozbot123 on Dec 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: String tokenization in C

EBCDIC famously does not have A..Z as contiguous characters, and I wouldn't describe it as a 'franken-coding' just yet - it still finds plenty of use in some places.

fork1 on Dec 15, 2018 | [–]

Unless you're dealing with mainframes, it's not like you see it everyday.

loeg on Dec 15, 2018 | [–]

EBCDIC is a classic example of a franken-coding.

If your compiler's source character set is EBCDIC and you want to parse ASCII files, you must use 0x41, etc, instead of 'A'.

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