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Edit the Character Mapping

Although CA provides code pages for many languages, there may be conversions you require that are not supported by these standard code pages. You can use the edit windows to customize the translation tables created from the PC and host code pages you have specified.

The two edit windows are as follows:

Follow these steps:

  1. Select the ASCII to EBCDIC or the EBCDIC to ASCII option from the Edit menu.

    Each window displays an array of the 256 hexadecimal values. Each entry in the array represents the output character set code value indexed by the input character set code value.

    Example of the ASCII to EBCDIC Table screen

  2. Locate the cursor over the value to be changed and left click. See the following table for keys to move the cursor.
  3. Edit the displayed translation table by typing the new hexadecimal value.

    The editor ignores any characters entered other than 0-9, a-f, and A-F.

  4. Click File Exit which prompts you to either save the translation table file or cancel the edit.

    The following keys can be used to move the cursor around the translation table edit window:

Key

Resulting Movement

Cursor Left

Left one digit

Cursor Right

Right one digit

Cursor Up

Up one row

Cursor Down

Down one row

Home

Beginning of row

End

End of row

PageUp

Top row

PageDown

Bottom row

Enter

Beginning of next row

Ctrl+CursorLeft

Left one entry

Ctrl+CursorRight

Right one entry

Ctrl+Home

Beginning of table

Ctrl+End

End of table