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		le-mark 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR (2021) I think the parent is referring to IBMs DBCS double byte character set which more like a weird utf-16.

lifthrasiir 3 months ago | [–]

AFAIK they are not a single unified character set (e.g. IBM Korean DBCS-PC is an extension to EUC-KR), so any of them can't support the full Unicode range at all.

nuc1e0n 3 months ago | [–]

For the record, I was referring to utf-ebcdic rather than any double byte encoding. I thought it was unambiguously googleable, but perhaps I was mistaken.

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