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Can someone tell if the Java character set encoding “cp285” is the one to use to support EBCIDIC UK 00285?

April 26, 2017character ebcidic encoding Java support UK

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Can someone tell if the Java character set encoding “cp285” is the one to use to support EBCIDIC UK 00285?

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Our documentation at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html says it’s “IBM United Kingdom, Ireland”, and looking at the mapping table I’d say it’s EBCDIC (it’s certainly not ISO 646 / ASCII based).