ASCII has not been changed beyond 128 characters. There is no single
'extended ASCII'. You might want to refer them to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

Rick Debay wrote:

>> What language your vendor is talking in?
>
> Gibberish :-)
>
> Here's their response to my inquiry as to why they are sending eight-bit
> ASCII:
>
> "The only thing in that record that MIGHT be getting converted to a 0xC2
> is the "broken vertical bar" character, which is an EBCDIC 6A, but text
> mode FTP converts correctly to a A6.
> The mechanism the file gets to the RST is somewhat different, with the
> file being zipped on iSeries and sent to our FTP server. It's possible
> the ZIP process is mapping the characters differently.
> The client's assertion that ASCII "stops" at 0x7F is roughly 25 years
> out of date, as extended 8-bit ASCII has been in common use since 1982
> or earlier with the advent of the IBM PC."

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Mark Rotteveel