It is done in conjunction with converting file formats from the old to the new systems. The following is a sample of ASCII and EBCDIC code. See ASCII chart, hex chart, EBCDIC chart and standards.

What is the EBCDIC code? Developed by IBM, EBCDIC code (short for Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is used for encoding characters with 8 bits. Though widespread on IBM computers, it ...

In ASCII code, the enquiry ("enq") character is hex 05; in EBCDIC, it is 2D. See ASCII chart and EBCDIC. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server is the first version which includes a port to a (non-ASCII) mainframe machine which uses the EBCDIC character set as its native codeset.

By default, the ASCII representation of umlaut-A, which is X'84', is translated to EBCDIC X'24'. However, the EBCDIC representation of umlaut-A is X'C0', so you need to translate EBCDIC X'24' to ...