z/OS support for the Unicode Standard application programming interfaces

z/OS Unicode support is based on Version 6.0 of the Unicode Standard, although lower versions are supported by some services. Review each individual service to see the Unicode Standard versions supported.

z/OS Unicode Services supports the following services:
  • Character conversion
  • Case conversion
  • Normalization
  • Collation
  • Stringprep
  • Bidirectional transformation
  • Conversion information service
  • Dynamic locale service

Summary information on these services is listed below. For detailed information about these services, see the individual chapters for each service.