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John Cowan wrote: >Single-byte EBCDIC is no harder than any other 8-bit set. Double-byte >EBCDIC is another matter. > > The angle I was trying to take was, for performance, how CPU-cacheable a transcoding routine is. For an ASCII-based 8-bit set, you only need the additional entries (e.g. 94, 96, etc.) but for an EBCDIC set (and an entity with non-minimal characters) there is much more chance that the transcoding won't interact with the cache well (depending on sizes, etc.) Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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