Comments on: EBCDIC to Ascii conversion C# http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ebcdic-to-ascii-conversion-c-sharp/ Tue, 21 May 2013 15:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: adamdavis http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ebcdic-to-ascii-conversion-c-sharp/#comment-95922 adamdavis Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:17:39 +0000 #comment-95922 That’s helpful Tom. I was wondering about this as well.

]]> By: hajitag http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ebcdic-to-ascii-conversion-c-sharp/#comment-95896 hajitag Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:45:57 +0000 #comment-95896 i have 2 textBoxes and 1 button.
textbox1 has Ebcdis code
i want that when i click on button
textBox2 shows ascii code

how will i do that???

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ebcdic-to-ascii-conversion-c-sharp/#comment-87775 tomliotta Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:34:11 +0000 #comment-87775 Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII;

ASCII might not be appropriate. UTF8Encoding might be better. The ASCII character set might not include everything.

Encoding ebcdic = Encoding.GetEncoding(“IBM037″);

IBM037 should work for US English encoding. However, if this is DBCS or some more involved encoding, the 037 set probably won’t work correctly. The actual encoding will need to be known. The encoding should either be sent with the file or data, or it should be agreed upon by the two sides of a conversation.

Be aware that some cooperation may be needed between sending and receiving side. Practically speaking, an encoding such as UTF8 ought to be agreed upon by both sides before exchange of data. Sending encoded data without advertising the encoding scheme gets real messy.

Tom

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