Use the NATIONAL-OF intrinsic function to convert alphabetic, alphanumeric, or DBCS data to a national data item. Specify the source code page as the second argument if the source is encoded in a different code page than is in effect for the data item.
Example: converting to and from national data
related tasks
Processing UTF-8 data
Processing Chinese GB 18030 data
Processing alphanumeric data items that contain DBCS data
related references
NATIONAL-OF
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Code page names
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