Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Programming Guide

WIDECHAR

The WIDECHAR option specifies the format in which WIDECHAR data will be stored.

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BIGENDIAN
Indicates that WIDECHAR data will be stored in big-endian format. For instance, the WIDECHAR value for the UTF-16 character '1' will be stored as '0031'x.
LITTLEENDIAN
Indicates that WIDECHAR data will be stored in little-endian format. For instance, the WIDECHAR value for the UTF-16 character '1' will be stored as '3100'x.

WX constants should always be specified in big-endian format. Thus the value '1' should always be specified as '0031'wx, even if under the WIDECHAR(LITTLEENDIAN) option, it is stored as '3100'x.


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