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Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Programming Guide


Processing data in an international environment

Enterprise COBOL supports Unicode UTF-16 as national character data at run time. UTF-16 provides a consistent and efficient way to encode plain text. Using UTF-16, you can develop software that will work with various national languages.

Use these COBOL facilities to code and compile programs that process national data:

You can also take advantage of implicit conversions of alphanumeric or DBCS data items to national representation. The compiler performs such conversions (in most cases) when you move these items to national data items, or compare these items with national data items.

related references  
COBOL statements and national data  
Intrinsic functions and national data  
CODEPAGE
  
NSYMBOL  
Classes and categories of data (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)  
Data categories and PICTURE rules (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)  
MOVE statement (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)  
General relation conditions (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)


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