my $parent_rfc1149 =
'A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers';
# Check that 8 bit and unicode names don't cause problems.
-my $pound = chr 163; # A pound sign. (Currency)
+my $pound;
+if (ord('A') == 193) { # EBCDIC platform
+ $pound = chr 177; # A pound sign. (Currency)
+} else { # ASCII platform
+ $pound = chr 163; # A pound sign. (Currency)
+}
my $inf = chr 0x221E;
# Check that we can distiguish the pathological case of a string, and the
# utf8 representation of that string.