Microsoft KB Archive/32981

COBOL Version 3.0 Supports Double-Byte Characters

PSS ID Number: Q32981 Article last modified on 04-21-1993

3.00 | 3.00 MS-DOS | OS/2

Summary: The Microsoft COBOL Compiler Version 3.0 provides support for languages (e.g. Japanese) that use a double-byte character code set. These characters are permitted in user-defined names and literals, and as data. The double-byte character code set character is “N”, as in the following example: PIC N(2) VALUE SPACES.

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