Explicitly switching between EBCDIC and ASCII encoding

In addition to the compiler and runtime system extensions for ASCII support described in the above sections, there are also functions for explicitly converting characters and strings between EBCDIC and ASCII representation. This permits EBCDIC and ASCII representation to be mixed within a single module. The conversion functions are declared in the include file <ascii_ebcdic.h>.

The following conversion functions and data are available:

char *_a2e(char *str); 
char *_e2a(char *str); 
char *_a2e_n(char *str, size_t n); 
char *_e2a_n(char *str, size_t n);
char *_a2e_max(char *str, size_t n);
char *_e2a_max(char *str, size_t n);
char *_a2e_dup(const char *str); 
char *_e2a_dup(const char *str); 
char *_a2e_dup_n(const char *str, size_t n); 
char *_e2a_dup_n(const char *str, size_t n); 

Conversion functions are described in detail in the alphabetical reference section (see "Alphabetical reference").