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  3. April 2006

RE: Moving bytes from a SBCS EBCDIC field to a DBCSUnicodefieldwithout translation

> From: Joe Pluta
> 
> Realize though that this is a bit of overkill for most situations.  If
> you're using invariant characters (basically most alphanumeric characters
> except for @, #, $ and %), you don't need the double storage required for
> the Unicode data.

I knew that didn't sound right.  Something kept telling me that that there
were only THREE major variant characters.  I was right... the percent sign
is indeed an invariant character.

To see the full list of invariant characters, just go here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/nls/r
bagsinvariantcharset.htm

-or-

http://tinyurl.com/kzh9k

Joe

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