公开(公告)号：CA2205641A1

公开(公告)日：1998-11-16

申请号：CA2205641

申请日：1997-05-16

Applicant: IBM CANADA

Inventor： UMAMAHESWARAN VETTAKKORUMAKANK ,  CHENG CHUN-YAO ALEXIS ,  MERU IBRAHIM ISMAIL ,  SOOR BALDEV SINGH ,  POND CLAUDE RICHARD

IPC: G06F17/22 ,  G06F5/00

Abstract: A system and method of transforming information between UCS and EBCDIC-friendly representations comprises a two-stage transformation process usi ng a first stage which transforms a UCS string to and from an intermediate form string, ref erred 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 t he I8 and EBCDIC-friendly strings and the transformations are symmetric in both stages. Th e second stage can produce EBCDIC-friendly strings in one or more selected EBCDIC encodin gs.