[Info-vax] AlphaVM-free emulator with all additional peripheral components

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jvbei8$5qe$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
> As was mentioned earlier, there's simply no way to determine the 
> character encoding of an arbitrary string.

   Which is why I once thought of "encrypting" character data by a simple 
   cipher:  store it in EBCDIC.