UTF16

UTF16 specifies the representation format of UTF-16 data items.

UTF16 option syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramUTF16NATIVEBELE

Default is: UTF16(NATIVE)

Abbreviations are: None

Specify UTF16(NATIVE) to use the native UTF-16 representation format of the platform. For COBOL for Linux®, this is little-endian format (least significant digit at the lowest address).

UTF16(BE) indicates that UTF-16 data items are represented consistently with IBM Z®, that is, in big-endian format (most significant digit at the lowest address).

UTF16(LE) indicates that UTF-16 data items are represented in little-endian format (least significant digit at the lowest address).