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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide
Enabling programs for international environments
Processing data in an international environment
COBOL statements and national data
Intrinsic functions and national data
Unicode and the encoding of language characters
Using national data (Unicode) in COBOL
Defining national data items
Using national literals
Using national-character figurative constants
Defining national numeric data items
National groups
Using national groups
Using national groups as elementary items
Using national groups as group items
Storage of national data
Converting to or from national (Unicode) representation
Converting alphanumeric, DBCS, and integer data to national data (MOVE)
Converting alphanumeric and DBCS data to national data (NATIONAL-OF)
Converting national data to alphanumeric data (DISPLAY-OF)
Overriding the default code page
Example: converting to and from national data
Processing UTF-8 data
Processing Chinese GB 18030 data
Comparing national (UTF-16) data
Comparing two class national operands
Comparing class national and class numeric operands
Comparing national numeric and other numeric operands
Comparing national character-string and other character-string operands
Comparing national data and alphanumeric-group operands
Coding for use of DBCS support
Declaring DBCS data
Using DBCS literals
Comparing DBCS literals
Testing for valid DBCS characters
Processing alphanumeric data items that contain DBCS data
Setting the locale
The active locale
Specifying the code page with a locale
Using environment variables to specify a locale
Determination of the locale from system settings
Types of messages for which translations are available
Locales and code pages that are supported
Controlling the collating sequence with a locale
Controlling the alphanumeric collating sequence with a locale
Controlling the DBCS collating sequence with a locale
Controlling the national collating sequence with a locale
Intrinsic functions that depend on collating sequence
Accessing the active locale and code-page values
Example: get and convert a code-page ID
Terms of use
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