Alphabet

See Table  5 on page  .

 

Table 5: Alphabet Block

alphabet_block	::=
	``alphabet''
	``(''
	``ASCII'' | ``EBSIDEC'' | ``BCD'' | ``BYTE''
	``)''
	``;''

 

The lowest component of the conversation is the alphabet. For any given conversation the choice of alphabet is fixed. The choices might include ASCII, EBSIDEC, BCD, or uninterpreted 8-bit bytes. One element in the alphabet is called a character.