Selected
characters do not occupy the same code point locations
in code maps for all EBCDIC encoding methods. For example, the following
characters occupy different code point locations in the respective EBCDIC
code maps for U.S. English and German.
These
characters are known as variant characters. For example,
if a German mainframe user entered an ä, which occupies code point C0,
an American compiler would interpret code point C0 as a {.
Especially important are characters that are commonly used in programming
languages, for example, { and $.
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