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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.



Ronald LeRoi Burback
1998-12-16