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Merge? How does this differ from BCD (6-bit)?

BCD (6-bit) Peter Flass (talk) 13:55, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are many reasons for keeping BCD (6-bit) separate from Six-bit character code (I've used it for 35 years as System engineer at Bull, and it was a milestone)
  1. For the same reason we do not merge EBCDIC and ASCII Seven-bit character codes (8-bit later on)
  2. Not to allow it to be confused with BCD..
  3. Six-bit character code is generic (trying to comprehend all others..among them Fieldata)
  4. Braille sixbit code it should go inside Six-bit character code, but may not be included in BCD (6-bit)
  5. It was the first Six-bit character code.. giving birth to its offsprings EBCDIC and ASCII
  6. Do you want to merge all 8bit code sets in one article?
  7. All code pages have separate articles.. Do you want to merge all code pages in one article?

(to be continued)--Mcapdevila (talk) 16:56, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fair 'nuff. Peter Flass (talk) 20:54, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
On the other hand, as far as I can see there are no articles Seven-bit character code or Eight-bit character code, just six-bit. The other major code pages each have their own article. I recently added an article on IBM Transcode, which is a different 6-bit code and there are probably others. Do we need a generic article for six-bit codes?Peter Flass (talk) 12:42, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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