EBCDICCP1047

EBCDICCP1047, also known as Code Page 1047, is a character encoding used on IBM mainframe systems. It is an extension of the EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) character set. EBCDICCP1047 is a single-byte encoding, meaning each character is represented by a single byte of data.

This code page is specifically designed to support the Latin-1 (Western European) character set, which includes characters with accents and diacritics commonly found in languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. It provides representations for uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, punctuation marks, and various control characters.

EBCDICCP1047 is widely used in applications running on IBM z/OS and other mainframe operating systems. Its prevalence stems from the historical dominance of IBM mainframes in enterprise computing, particularly in financial and transaction processing environments. While ASCII and its extensions like UTF-8 are more common in modern distributed systems and the internet, EBCDICCP1047 remains essential for maintaining compatibility with legacy mainframe applications and data. When data needs to be exchanged between EBCDIC and ASCII/UTF-8 environments, character set conversion is typically performed to ensure correct interpretation of the characters.