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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Using national data (Unicode) in COBOL

In COBOL for Windows, you can specify national (UTF-16) data in any of several ways.

These types of national data are available:

In addition, you can define national groups that contain only data items that explicitly or implicitly have USAGE NATIONAL, and that behave in the same way as elementary category national data items in most operations.

These declarations affect the amount of storage that is needed.

related concepts
Unicode and the encoding of language characters
National groups

related tasks
Defining national data items
Using national literals
Using national-character figurative constants
Defining national numeric data items
Using national groups
Converting to or from national (Unicode) representation
Comparing national (UTF-16) data

related references
Storage of national data
Classes and categories of data (COBOL for Windows Language Reference)


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