The Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS), ISO/IEC 10646, provides
codes for more than 65,000 characters, huge increase over ASCII's code capacity of 128 characters. It is applicable to the representation, transmission, interchange, pro...
The Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS), ISO/IEC 10646, provides
codes for more than 65,000 characters, huge increase over ASCII's code capacity of 128 characters. It is applicable to the representation, transmission, interchange, processing, storage, input and presentation of the written form of the language (scripts) throughout the world. Computer users who deal with multilingual text will all find that the UCS encoding greatly simplifies their work. In this paper, code conversion methods among the UCS code system and the current IBM code systems are studied. Recently, the leading-edge companies from the industry such as IBM, Microsoft, etc, are implementing the UCS code into their newly announced products as internal code. Therefore, it is so important to guide on code conversion methods to their customers during customer systems are migrated to the environment which the UCS code system is used and/or the current code systems, i.e., ASCII PC code and EBCDIC host code, are used with the UCS together.