--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/org/tn5250j/encoding/ICodePage.java	Thu May 22 12:38:09 2014 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package org.tn5250j.encoding;
+
+public interface ICodePage {
+
+	/**
+	 * Convert a single byte (or maybe more bytes which representing one character) to a Unicode character.
+	 *
+	 * @param index
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	public abstract char ebcdic2uni(int index);
+
+	/**
+	 * Convert a Unicode character in it's byte representation.
+	 * Therefore, only 8bit codepages are supported.
+	 *
+	 * @param index
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	public abstract byte uni2ebcdic(char index);
+
+}