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SBCS Character Set Information Document
All character sets (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1982
GCSGID 00640
Name Syntactic Character Set
Size 81
Registration Date 12/1/1982
Last Revision Date
Languages English
Countries/Regions Multinational
Principal Code Pages CECPs 00256 00500 01084
Notes 1. This character set is encoded at standard code points on most EBCDIC code pages. (See Code Page 00500 for this encoding.) It is commonly assumed by software when the exact code page and/or character set are unknown.

2. Country Extended Code Pages (CECPs) should also be added to the Principal Code Pages listed above. The CECPs are 37, 273, 274, 275, 277, 278, 280, 281, 282, 284, 285, 297, 500, 871, 1070, 1071, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1084 and 1085.
Character Set CS00640.pdf
CS00640.txt

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