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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Chun-Yao Alexis Cheng, Scarborough, CA;
Ibrahim Ismail Meru, Don Mills, CA;
Claude Richard Pond, Toronto, CA;
Baldev Singh Soor, Markham, CA;
Vettakkorumakankavu Sitaram Umamaheswaran, Ajax, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of transforming information between UCS and EBCDIC-friendly representations comprises a two-stage transformation process using a first stage which transforms a UCS string to and from an intermediate form string, referred to as an I8-string. A second stage transforms the I8-string to and from a string in an EBCDIC-friendly representation. The two stages employ transformations which result in control characters and other selected characters being represented as single octets in the I8 and EBCDIC-friendly strings and the transformations are symmetric in both stages. The second stage can produce EBCDIC-friendly strings in one or more selected EBCDIC encodings.