On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, kartwall wrote:

>> Not really. The purpose of that functionality is for platforms that do not
>> speak ASCII natively to provide a way to make the protocols we use that are
>> ascii-based to still work fine.
>
> Thanks a lot. But I don't understand what is non-ASCII platform?

Primarily in our cases, those are EBCDIC ones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Binary_Coded_Decimal_Interchange_Code

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