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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Defining symbolic characters

Use the SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause to give symbolic names to any character of the specified alphabet. Use ordinal position to identify the character, where position 1 corresponds to character X'00'.

For example, to give a name to the plus character (X'2B' in the ASCII alphabet), code:

SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS PLUS IS 44

You cannot use the SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause when the code page indicated by the locale is a multibyte-character code page.

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Setting the locale


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