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.
EBCDIC Code Point Discrepancies for Selected Languages
Examples of characters
that are commonly used in programming languages are { and $.
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 {.