Locale:...:IBM284(3)

🌸 Locale::RecodeData::IBM284 — the manual page, part 1 🎀

okay so this is IBM284(3), and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, bestie. Yes that's a lot of words. Stay with me 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

Locale::RecodeData::IBM284 — literally just conversion routines for IBM284. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

This module is internal to libintl.  Do not use directly!

like... the synopsis is telling you not to touch it. respect the boundary, okay? 🫶

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

So this module is generated — not hand-written, bestie, it's built — and it contains the conversion tables and routines for IBM284. that's it. that's the whole description. iconic minimalism honestly ✨

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💜 COMMENTS 💜

The following comments have been extracted from the original charmap, so this is like... the receipts, straight from the source 📜:

 version: 1.0
  source: IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01, March 1990
 alias CP284
 alias EBCDIC-CP-ES

⚠️ and here's the important part, no cap: please note that aliases listed above are not necessarily valid! so don't come for me if CP284 or EBCDIC-CP-ES doesn't do what you think it does. the manpage said it first 💀

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🌈 CHARACTER TABLE 🌈

The following table is sorted in the same order as the original charmap. all the character codes are in hexadecimal, bestie — hex girl summer 🔥

And one little translation note so you're not confused: please read 'ISO-10646' as 'ISO-10646-UCS4'. same thing, longer name, the way that the original charmap wrote it 🎀

the table itself is coming up in the next part — don't go anywhere 🦋

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okay bestie we're back, mid-table, zero drama 💅 quick refresher on what you're looking at: three columns — local byte value, the ISO-10646 code point it maps to, and the description. And no, they do not line up nicely, that's the whole ✨journey✨ of this charset. buckle up 🎀

• 00 → 00000000 — NULL (NUL)
• 01 → 00000001 — START OF HEADING (SOH)
• 02 → 00000002 — START OF TEXT (STX)
• 03 → 00000003 — END OF TEXT (ETX)
• 04 → 0000009C — STRING TERMINATOR (ST)
• 05 → 00000009 — CHARACTER TABULATION (HT)
• 06 → 00000086 — START OF SELECTED AREA (SSA)
• 07 → 0000007F — DELETE (DEL)
• 08 → 00000097 — END OF GUARDED AREA (EPA)
• 09 → 0000008D — REVERSE LINE FEED (RI)
• 0A → 0000008E — SINGLE-SHIFT TWO (SS2)
• 0B → 0000000B — LINE TABULATION (VT)
• 0C → 0000000C — FORM FEED (FF)
• 0D → 0000000D — CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
• 0E → 0000000E — SHIFT OUT (SO)
• 0F → 0000000F — SHIFT IN (SI)

like… local 0B through 0F literally just map to themselves and everyone else is doing parkour around them 😭 main character energy from the control chars fr.

• 10 → 00000010 — DATALINK ESCAPE (DLE)
• 11 → 00000011 — DEVICE CONTROL ONE (DC1)
• 12 → 00000012 — DEVICE CONTROL TWO (DC2)
• 13 → 00000013 — DEVICE CONTROL THREE (DC3)
• 14 → 0000009D — OPERATING SYSTEM COMMAND (OSC)
• 15 → 00000085 — NEXT LINE (NEL)
• 16 → 00000008 — BACKSPACE (BS)
• 17 → 00000087 — END OF SELECTED AREA (ESA)
• 18 → 00000018 — CANCEL (CAN)
• 19 → 00000019 — END OF MEDIUM (EM)
• 1A → 00000092 — PRIVATE USE TWO (PU2)
• 1B → 0000008F — SINGLE-SHIFT THREE (SS3)
• 1C → 0000001C — FILE SEPARATOR (IS4)
• 1D → 0000001D — GROUP SEPARATOR (IS3)
• 1E → 0000001E — RECORD SEPARATOR (IS2)
• 1F → 0000001F — UNIT SEPARATOR (IS1)

the way 16 is BACKSPACE pointing at 00000008 while 1B is ESCAPE pointing at 0000008F — they swapped lives and nobody said anything 🫠

• 20 → 00000080 — PADDING CHARACTER (PAD)
• 21 → 00000081 — HIGH OCTET PRESET (HOP)
• 22 → 00000082 — BREAK PERMITTED HERE (BPH)
• 23 → 00000083 — NO BREAK HERE (NBH)
• 24 → 00000084 — INDEX (IND)
• 25 → 0000000A — LINE FEED (LF)
• 26 → 00000017 — END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK (ETB)
• 27 → 0000001B — ESCAPE (ESC)
• 28 → 00000088 — CHARACTER TABULATION SET (HTS)
• 29 → 00000089 — CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION (HTJ)
• 2A → 0000008A — LINE TABULATION SET (VTS)
• 2B → 0000008B — PARTIAL LINE FORWARD (PLD)
• 2C → 0000008C — PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD (PLU)
• 2D → 00000005 — ENQUIRY (ENQ)
• 2E → 00000006 — ACKNOWLEDGE (ACK)
• 2F → 00000007 — BELL (BEL)
• 30 → 00000090 — DEVICE CONTROL STRING (DCS)
• 31 → 00000091 — PRIVATE USE ONE (PU1)
• 32 → 00000016 — SYNCHRONOUS IDLE (SYN)
• 33 → 00000093 — SET TRANSMIT STATE (STS)
• 34 → 00000094 — CANCEL CHARACTER (CCH)
• 35 → 00000095 — MESSAGE WAITING (MW)
• 36 → 00000096 — START OF GUARDED AREA (SPA)
• 37 → 00000004 — END OF TRANSMISSION (EOT)
• 38 → 00000098 — START OF STRING (SOS)
• 39 → 00000099 — SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER (SGCI)
• 3A → 0000009A — SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER (SCI)
• 3B → 0000009B — CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER (CSI)
• 3C → 00000014 — DEVICE CONTROL FOUR (DC4)
• 3D → 00000015 — NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE (NAK)
• 3E → 0000009E — PRIVACY MESSAGE (PM)
• 3F → 0000001A — SUBSTITUTE (SUB)

okay that was the entire control-zone saga 🫶 and now we hit 40 and it's graphics time — every single accented letter is about to be in a completely unhinged order, and honestly? it's giving chaos and I respect it 👑

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• 40 → 00000020 — SPACE
• 41 → 000000A0 — NO-BREAK SPACE
• 42 → 000000E2 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• 43 → 000000E4 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
• 44 → 000000E0 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
• 45 → 000000E1 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
• 46 → 000000E3 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
• 47 → 000000E5 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
• 48 → 000000E7 — LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
• 49 → 000000A6 — BROKEN BAR
• 4A → 0000005B — LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
• 4B → 0000002E — FULL STOP
• 4C → 0000003C — LESS-THAN SIGN
• 4D → 00000028 — LEFT PARENTHESIS
• 4E → 0000002B — PLUS SIGN
• 4F → 0000007C — VERTICAL LINE
• 50 → 00000026 — AMPERSAND
• 51 → 000000E9 — LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
• 52 → 000000EA — LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• 53 → 000000EB — LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
• 54 → 000000E8 — LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
• 55 → 000000ED — LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
• 56 → 000000EE — LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• 57 → 000000EF — LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
• 58 → 000000EC — LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
• 59 → 000000DF — LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (German)
• 5A → 0000005D — RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
• 5B → 00000024 — DOLLAR SIGN
• 5C → 0000002A — ASTERISK
• 5D → 00000029 — RIGHT PARENTHESIS
• 5E → 0000003B — SEMICOLON
• 5F → 000000AC — NOT SIGN
• 60 → 0000002D — HYPHEN-MINUS
• 61 → 0000002F — SOLIDUS
• 62 → 000000C2 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• 63 → 000000C4 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
• 64 → 000000C0 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
• 65 → 000000C1 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
• 66 → 000000C3 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
• 67 → 000000C5 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
• 68 → 000000C7 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
• 69 → 00000023 — NUMBER SIGN
• 6A → 000000F1 — LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
• 6B → 0000002C — COMMA
• 6C → 00000025 — PERCENT SIGN
• 6D → 0000005F — LOW LINE
• 6E → 0000003E — GREATER-THAN SIGN
• 6F → 0000003F — QUESTION MARK
• 70 → 000000F8 — LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
• 71 → 000000C9 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
• 72 → 000000CA — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• 73 → 000000CB — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
• 74 → 000000C8 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
• 75 → 000000CD — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
• 76 → 000000CE — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• 77 → 000000CF — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
• 78 → 000000CC — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
• 79 → 00000060 — GRAVE ACCENT
• 7A → 0000003A — COLON
• 7B → 000000D1 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
• 7C → 00000040 — COMMERCIAL AT
• 7D → 00000027 — APOSTROPHE
• 7E → 0000003D — EQUALS SIGN
• 7F → 00000022 — QUOTATION MARK

not 7D being APOSTROPHE and 7F being QUOTATION MARK while 7C is COMMERCIAL AT — the punctuation girlies are scattered across the whole map and I am OBSESSED 😭

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• 80 → 000000D8 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
• 81 → 00000061 — LATIN SMALL LETTER A
• 82 → 00000062 — LATIN SMALL LETTER B
• 83 → 00000063 — LATIN SMALL LETTER C
• 84 → 00000064 — LATIN SMALL LETTER D
• 85 → 00000065 — LATIN SMALL LETTER E
• 86 → 00000066 — LATIN SMALL LETTER F
• 87 → 00000067 — LATIN SMALL LETTER G
• 88 → 00000068 — LATIN SMALL LETTER H
• 89 → 00000069 — LATIN SMALL LETTER I
• 8A → 000000AB — LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
• 8B → 000000BB — RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
• 8C → 000000F0 — LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH (Icelandic)
• 8D → 000000FD — LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
• 8E → 000000FE — LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN (Icelandic)
• 8F → 000000B1 — PLUS-MINUS SIGN
• 90 → 000000B0 — DEGREE SIGN
• 91 → 0000006A — LATIN SMALL LETTER J
• 92 → 0000006B — LATIN SMALL LETTER K
• 93 → 0000006C — LATIN SMALL LETTER L
• 94 → 0000006D — LATIN SMALL LETTER M
• 95 → 0000006E — LATIN SMALL LETTER N
• 96 → 0000006F — LATIN SMALL LETTER O
• 97 → 00000070 — LATIN SMALL LETTER P
• 98 → 00000071 — LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
• 99 → 00000072 — LATIN SMALL LETTER R
• 9A → 000000AA — FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
• 9B → 000000BA — MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
• 9C → 000000E6 — LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
• 9D → 000000B8 — CEDILLA
• 9E → 000000C6 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
• 9F → 000000A4 — CURRENCY SIGN

81 through 89 is literally just a→i sitting in a row like they're waiting for the bus 🚌 and then 91 picks up at j through r and honestly whoever laid this out said "alphabet but make it a scavenger hunt" 🔍

• A0 → 000000B5 — MICRO SIGN
• A1 → 000000A8 — DIAERESIS
• A2 → 00000073 — LATIN SMALL LETTER S
• A3 → 00000074 — LATIN SMALL LETTER T
• A4 → 00000075 — LATIN SMALL LETTER U
• A5 → 00000076 — LATIN SMALL LETTER V
• A6 → 00000077 — LATIN SMALL LETTER W
• A7 → 00000078 — LATIN SMALL LETTER X
• A8 → 00000079 — LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
• A9 → 0000007A — LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
• AA → 000000A1 — INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
• AB → 000000BF — INVERTED QUESTION MARK
• AC → 000000D0 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (Icelandic)
• AD → 000000DD — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
• AE → 000000DE — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN (Icelandic)
• AF → 000000AE — REGISTERED SIGN
• B0 → 000000A2 — CENT SIGN
• B1 → 000000A3 — POUND SIGN
• B2 → 000000A5 — YEN SIGN
• B3 → 000000B7 — MIDDLE DOT
• B4 → 000000A9 — COPYRIGHT SIGN
• B5 → 000000A7 — SECTION SIGN
• B6 → 000000B6 — PILCROW SIGN
• B7 → 000000BC — VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
• B8 → 000000BD — VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
• B9 → 000000BE — VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
• BA → 0000005E — CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
• BB → 00000021 — EXCLAMATION MARK
• BC → 0000203E — OVERLINE
• BD → 0000007E — TILDE
• BE → 000000B4 — ACUTE ACCENT
• BF → 000000D7 — MULTIPLICATION SIGN

the currency girlies!! cent, pound, yen all chillin at B0, B1, B2 — iconic 💸 and BC is the ONE row here rockin a five-digit code point (0000203E, that's OVERLINE) so yeah, it's special ✨

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• C0 → 0000007B — LEFT CURLY BRACKET
• C1 → 00000041 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
• C2 → 00000042 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
• C3 → 00000043 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
• C4 → 00000044 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
• C5 → 00000045 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
• C6 → 00000046 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
• C7 → 00000047 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
• C8 → 00000048 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
• C9 → 00000049 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
• CA → 000000AD — SOFT HYPHEN
• CB → 000000F4 — LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• CC → 000000F6 — LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
• CD → 000000F2 — LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
• CE → 000000F3 — LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
• CF → 000000F5 — LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
• D0 → 0000007D — RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
• D1 → 0000004A — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
• D2 → 0000004B — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
• D3 → 0000004C — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
• D4 → 0000004D — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
• D5 → 0000004E — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
• D6 → 0000004F — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
• D7 → 00000050 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
• D8 → 00000051 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
• D9 → 00000052 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
• DA → 000000B9 — SUPERSCRIPT ONE
• DB → 000000FB — LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
• DC → 000000FC — LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
• DD → 000000F9 — LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
• DE → 000000FA — LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
• DF → 000000FF — LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
• E0 → 0000005C — REVERSE SOLIDUS
• E1 → 000000F7 — DIVISION SIGN
• E2 → 00000053 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
• E3 → 00000054 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
• E4 → 00000055 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
• E5 → 00000056 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
• E6 → 00000057 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
• E7 → 00000058 — LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X

sneaky detail bestie: CA is SOFT HYPHEN sitting in the middle of the capital letters like it's not supposed to be there 💀 and C0 / D0 are your curly brackets flanking the whole A→I run — them being brackets is doing the MOST 🎀

           E8 |  00000059 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
           E9 |  0000005A | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
           EA |  000000B2 | SUPERSCRIPT TWO
           EB |  000000D4 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
           EC |  000000D6 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
           ED |  000000D2 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
           EE |  000000D3 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
           EF |  000000D5 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
           F0 |  00000030 | DIGIT ZERO
           F1 |  00000031 | DIGIT ONE
           F2 |  00000032 | DIGIT TWO
           F3 |  00000033 | DIGIT THREE
           F4 |  00000034 | DIGIT FOUR
           F5 |  00000035 | DIGIT FIVE
           F6 |  00000036 | DIGIT SIX
           F7 |  00000037 | DIGIT SEVEN
           F8 |  00000038 | DIGIT EIGHT
           F9 |  00000039 | DIGIT NINE
           FA |  000000B3 | SUPERSCRIPT THREE
           FB |  000000DB | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
           FC |  000000DC | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
           FD |  000000D9 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
           FE |  000000DA | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
           FF |  0000009F | APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND (APC)

And that’s the table completed, bestie — every last row accounted for 💅✨

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Okay so the copyright receipt for this whole situation belongs to Guido Flohr, and here’s the exact text so nobody comes for me:

Copyright (C) 2002-2017 Guido Flohr <http://www.guido-flohr.net/>
(<mailto:guido.flohr@cantanea.com>), all rights reserved.  See the
source code for details!code for details!

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Go ahead and peek at these related icons too:

• Locale::RecodeData(3)
• Locale::Recode(3)
• perl(1)

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