In this document, DBCS characters are shown in this form: D1D2D3.
Latin alphabet characters in DBCS representation are shown in this form: .A.B.C.
Notes
- In EBCDIC DBCS data containing mixed single-byte and double-byte characters,
double-byte character strings are delimited by shift-out and shift-in characters. In this document, the shift-out delimiter is represented pictorially by the <
character, and the shift-in character is represented pictorially by the > character.
The single-byte EBCDIC codes for the shift-out and shift-in delimiters are X'0E' and
X'0F', respectively. The <> symbol denotes contiguous shift-out and shift-in
characters. The >< symbol denotes contiguous shift-in and shift-out
characters.
- In ASCII DBCS data containing mixed single-byte and double-byte characters,
double-byte character strings are not delimited by shift-out and shift-in
characters.