To find out how ASCII (32) corresponds to the EBCDIC equivalent, just look at ascii_ebcdic [32].<BR><BR>In the OP's case, the the first lookup table (converts 8-bit ASCII to 16-bit card code) is ...

The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use ...

This means that ASCII code only allows for the representation of 128 characters. In order to represent more character sets, it is possible to use Unicode instead of ASCII.