EBCDIC 893

IBM code page 893 (CCSID 893) is an EBCDIC code page used in IBM mainframes for optical character recognition.[1]

Codepage layout

Characters are shown with their equivalent Unicode codes.

Host OCR-B[2][3]

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
4_	SP 0020			ä 00E4				å 00E5			[ 005B	. 002E	< 003C	( 0028	+ 002B	! 0021
5_	& 0026									ß 00DF	] 005D	$ 0024	* 002A	) 0029	; 003B	^ 005E
6_	- 002D	/ 002F		Ä 00C4	^[a]			Å 00C5		Ñ 00D1	| 007C	, 002C	% 0025	_ 005F	> 003E	? 003F
7_	ø 00F8						ˍ 02CD	^[b]		` 0060	: 003A	# 0023	@ 0040	' 0027	= 003D	" 0022
8_	Ø 00D8	a 0061	b 0062	c 0063	d 0064	e 0065	f 0066	g 0067	h 0068	i 0069					ij 0133	IJ 0132
9_		j 006A	k 006B	l 006C	m 006D	n 006E	o 006F	p 0070	q 0071	r 0072			æ 00E6	¸ 00B8	Æ 00C6	¤ 00A4
A_	€ 20AC	~ 007E	s 0073	t 0074	u 0075	v 0076	w 0077	x 0078	y 0079	z 007A
B_		£ 00A3	¥ 00A5			§ 00A7						| 007C		¨ 00A8	´ 00B4	^[c]
C_	{ 007B	A 0041	B 0042	C 0043	D 0044	E 0045	F 0046	G 0047	H 0048	I 0049			ö 00F6
D_	} 007D	J 004A	K 004B	L 004C	M 004D	N 004E	O 004F	P 0050	Q 0051	R 0052			ü 00FC			^ 005E
E_	\ 005C		S 0053	T 0054	U 0055	V 0056	W 0057	X 0058	Y 0059	Z 005A			Ö 00D6
F_	0 0030	1 0031	2 0032	3 0033	4 0034	5 0035	6 0036	7 0037	8 0038	9 0039			Ü 00DC

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

Characters not in Unicode:

• ^a Alternative small letter m (0x64)[3][4]
• ^b Group erase (0x77)[3][5]
• ^c Character erase (0xBF)[3][5]

References

1. "CCSID 893 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-26.
2. Code Page CPGID 00893 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
3. Code Page CPGID 00893 (txt), IBM
4. "Index Table" (PDF). Standard ECMA-11 for the Alphanumeric Character Set OCR-B for Optical Recognition. p. 17.
5. "5.5 Erase Characters" (PDF). Standard ECMA-11 for the Alphanumeric Character Set OCR-B for Optical Recognition. pp. 6–7.