I do not think I'v seen any reference / uee of EBCDIC in any dialect of BASIC . That being said, as far as I know, VB doesn;t know the 'origen of whatever it sorts, so the sort itself should work. Since it has been way more longer than even I want to contemplate since I used it, I have NO recollection/memory/residual knowledge of the sequence of characters, so am totally unsure of how the results would "look" to a user.
The only alternative I see would be to build a crossref function to copy the EBCDIC characters to ASCII characters, sort the ASCII stuff and then reverse translate back to EBDCIC. Of course, then you would ned to shop hte results back to the archaic system which still uses EBDCIC and have it display the results to even begin to see if it was all "O.K." Since the results would only be useful in the EBDCIC system anyway, why not do the sort there?
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