Infoprint Manager reads the first six bytes and tests for all ASCII characters (code points from X'00' to X'7F') to determine if a file is encoded in ASCII or EBCDIC. If no non-ASCII characters are found, the line-data transform program assumes that the file uses the ASCII newline character, X'0A'. Otherwise, the transform assumes the file uses the EBCDIC newline character, X'25'. Because an input file can misguide the line-data transform, a set of rules has been established to determine how the transform processes the file.
| Data Type | Newline Character |
|---|---|
| All EBCDIC | EBCDIC X'25' |
| All EBCDIC | ASCII X'0D0A' or X'0A' 1 |
| All ASCII | EBCDIC X'25' 1 |
| All ASCII | ASCII X'0D0A' or X'0A' |
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These combinations are possible only if a file contains a prefix with a string that indicates a different code set than actually exists.
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