Kanji charecters in Cobol

[gopalrathi]

Hi,

Need some help on handling of Kanji charecters (for Japan System). We will receive a file with address details for the customer in Kanji. The address needs to be updated into a unicode DB2 table.

How should this be handled in Cobol?? Does Kanji always contain double byte charecters?

Gopal.

 

[Crox]

Perhaps you can look it up in the manuals about DBCS (Double byte character strings) characters with for example picture G or N.

 

[WMK]

If you are using a current IBM mainframe compiler, then make certain that you understand the differences between
DBCS
and
Unicode

Checkout the
- NSYMBOL compiler option
- The NATIONAL-OF and DISPLAY-OF intrinsic functions
- What "CCSID" means on an IBM mainframe system

All of these are discussed in the current Enterprise COBOL documentation


Bill Klein