In addition to the standard EBCDIC set of characters, High Level Assembler accepts double-byte character set (DBCS) data. The double-byte character set consists of the following:
| Double-byte space | X'4040' |
| Double-byte characters | Each double-byte character contains two bytes, each of which must be in the range X'41' to X'FE'. The first byte of a double-byte character is known as the ward byte. For example, the ward byte for the double-byte representation of EBCDIC characters is X'42'. |
| Shift codes |
Shift-out (SO) - X'0E' Shift-in (SI) - X'0F' |
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Examples showing the use of EBCDIC characters and double-byte characters are given in Table 4. For a description of the DBCS notation used in the examples, see Double-byte character set notation.
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