Converting to or from national (Unicode) representation
You can implicitly or explicitly convert data items to national (UTF-16) representation.
About this task
You can implicitly convert alphabetic, alphanumeric, DBCS, or integer data to national data by using the MOVE
statement. Implicit
conversions also take place in other COBOL statements, such as IF
statements that compare an alphanumeric data item with a data item that has
USAGE NATIONAL
.
You can explicitly convert to and
from national data items by using the intrinsic
functions NATIONAL-OF
and DISPLAY-OF
,
respectively. By using these intrinsic functions, you can specify
a code page for the conversion that is different from the code page
that is in effect for a data item.