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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Coding for use of DBCS support

IBM COBOL for Windows supports using applications in any of many national languages, including languages that use double-byte character sets (DBCS).

The following list summarizes the support for DBCS:

related tasks
Declaring DBCS data
Using DBCS literals
Testing for valid DBCS characters
Processing alphanumeric data items that contain DBCS data
Setting the locale
Controlling the collating sequence with a locale

related references
SOSI


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