[Info-vax] What to do with my VAX.....

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/20/2020 1:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> As an aside, I wonder how many people today even know that EBCDIC exists
> when it comes to talking about alternate ways to store data ?

Know EBCDIC specifically? Probably only a small bunch of guys over 50.

Know that data can be stored differently and be able to
get a list of what is possible in their environment? Millions!

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

public class CharsetList {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         for(Entry<String,Charset> e : 
Charset.availableCharsets().entrySet()) {
             System.out.println(e.getKey() + " = " + 
e.getValue().aliases());
         }
     }
}

list 156 encodings including 10 flavors of EBCDIC
with Java 5 on VMS.

(and 170 including 21 flavors of EBCDIC with Java 8
on Windows)

using System;
using System.Text;

namespace E
{
     public class Program
     {
         public static void Main(string[] args)
         {
             foreach(EncodingInfo ei in Encoding.GetEncodings())
             {
                 Console.WriteLine(ei.Name + " = " + ei.DisplayName);
             }
             Console.ReadKey();
         }
     }
}

list 140 encodings including 31 flavors of EBCDIC with
.NET 4 on Windows.

Arne