Graphic string encoding schemes

Each graphic string can be further defined as either double-byte data or Unicode data.

Double-byte data

Data in which every character is represented by a character from the double-byte character set (DBCS) that does not include shift-out or shift-in characters. Each double-byte graphic string has an associated ASCII or EBCDIC CCSID.

Unicode data

Data that contains characters represented by two bytes, except supplementary characters, which take two 2-byte code points per character. Each Unicode graphic string is encoded using UTF-16. The CCSID for UTF-16 is 1200.