On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 19:47:13 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > >Actually not, as the base64 document survives character conversion. > I agree there's no loss of information.
>An assembler routine running using EBCDIC will provide the same result (with >EBCDIC) as the routine running using ASCII with ASCII, i.e., 'A' translates to >the same binary code on both systems. > What assembler runs on both ASCII and EBCDIC systems? There's an ambiguity. If you don't know whether your base64 is represented in ASCII or EBCDIC, suppose it contains the character at code point x'4E'. You don't know whether that's an EBCDIC '+' or ASCII 'N'. It matters. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
