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== Merge? How does this differ from BCD (6-bit)? ==

[[BCD (6-bit)]] [[User:Peter Flass|Peter Flass]] ([[User talk:Peter Flass|talk]]) 13:55, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Per [[Wikipedia:Merging]], proposed merge discussions should take place on a single page. As I was confused by the separate discussion at [[Talk:BCD (6-bit)]], I took the liberty to merge it.

:There are many reasons for keeping [[BCD (6-bit)]] separate from [[Six-bit character code]] (I've used it for 35 years as System engineer at Bull, and it was a milestone)

# For the same reason we do not merge [[EBCDIC]] and [[ASCII]] Seven-bit character codes (8-bit later on)

'''Please participate in discussion at [[Talk:BCD (6-bit)]].''' Thanks, [[User:Wbm1058|Wbm1058]] ([[User talk:Wbm1058|talk]]) 17:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

# Not to allow it to be confused with [[Binary-coded decimal|BCD]]..

# [[Six-bit character code]] is generic (trying to comprehend all others..among them [[Fieldata]])

== External links ==

# [[Braille sixbit code]] it should go inside [[Six-bit character code]], but may not be included in [[BCD (6-bit)]]

All 3 external links are broken now. Could someone fix this? [[User:Xbony2|-Xbony2]] ([[User talk:Xbony2|talk]]) 20:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

# It was the first [[Six-bit character code]].. giving birth to its offsprings [[EBCDIC]] and [[ASCII]]

:Done, and I fixed a bunch of references while I was at it. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 22:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

# Do you want to merge all 8bit code sets in one article?

# All code pages have separate articles.. Do you want to merge all code pages in one article?

== Page formatting ==

(to be continued)--[[User:Mcapdevila|Mcapdevila]] ([[User talk:Mcapdevila|talk]]) 16:56, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

::Fair 'nuff. [[User:Peter Flass|Peter Flass]] ([[User talk:Peter Flass|talk]]) 20:54, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I think the character charts should be moved so that the description and chart of each charset are together. Right now the charts are in their own section which forces readers to scroll from the description to find the corresponding chart. [[Special:Contributions/204.225.215.56|204.225.215.56]] ([[User talk:204.225.215.56|talk]]) 17:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

::On the other hand, as far as I can see there are no articles [[Seven-bit character code]] or [[Eight-bit character code]], just six-bit. The other major code pages each have their own article. I recently added an article on [[Transcode (character encoding)|IBM ''Transcode'']], which is a different 6-bit code and there are probably others. Do we need a generic article for six-bit codes?[[User:Peter Flass|Peter Flass]] ([[User talk:Peter Flass|talk]]) 12:42, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

:::I think it will be no need for the [[Six-bit character code]] article, in the moment all the included code systems they have its own article, as the other families.--[[User:Mcapdevila|Mcapdevila]] ([[User talk:Mcapdevila|talk]]) 18:52, 20 June 2012 (UTC)