This story happens in Belgium. All national languages(Dutch, French, Germans) have plenty of accented characters. This EBCDIC variant was never a valid technical choice for the country. Sad that we needed the GDPR to finally whack some sense in this bank.
I worked in a similar national organization. I fought for having a newly built systems in 2015 created in anything different than cp1252 and ISO8859-1. I lost. The architects flat out forbade UTF-8 and required 1252, in the name of consistency.
I worked in a similar national organization. I fought for having a newly built systems in 2015 created in anything different than cp1252 and ISO8859-1. I lost. The architects flat out forbade UTF-8 and required 1252, in the name of consistency.