Tekniquelly correctMar 7
Whoa. UTF-8 is older now than ASCII was when UTF-8 was invented.
Show threaddeBaerMar 7
@tek But UTF-EBCDIC is still younger than EBCDIC was when UTF-EBCDIC was invented.
Show threadBradley M. Kühn16h ago

@deBaer just reminded me that I really should get around reencoding all my old EPCIDIC files into UTF-8 …
or do I have to stop at ASCII as an intermediary?

👴

Cc: @mjd @tek

Show threaddeBaer
@bkuhn @mjd @tek iconv -f IBM1141 -t utf-8 input_ebcdic.txt -o output.txt (Or a different codepage, depending on which one your EBCDIC files use...)
5:20pmWeb
Show threadBradley M. Kühn10h ago

@deBaer

I was doing improv. Not sure if your comment was a “Yes, and…” or an attempt to say “stop #EBCDIC-based improv. This 💩 is serious,man!”.

Sorry if my confusion just broke the 4th wall. 😁

Cc: @mjd @tek

Show threaddeBaer8h ago
@bkuhn @mjd @tek I couldn't tell, since I (ex IBM employee) know people who actually still have files encoded in EBCDIC. ;-)