Original sentence: Data portability is hindered by the fact that EBCDIC lower case alphabetic characters are lower in the collating sequence than upper case, and numerics are higher than both— the exact opposite of ASCII.EBCDIC has no technical advantage or disadvantage compared to ASCII-based code pages such as the ISO-8859 series or Unicode.Unlike ASCII the EBCDIC alphabet is non-contiguous and is interleaved with some non alphabetic characters
Edited sentence: But there are some aspects of EBCDIC which make it much less pleasant to work with than ASCII, such as a non-contiguous alphabet.EBCDIC has no modern technical advantage over ASCII-based code pages such as the ISO-8859 series or Unicode