TRTT is not in any way Unicode-dependent. It is table-driven, does what it is told to do. The only requirement is that both source and target character sets be DBCSs. The TRTE (translate and Test Extended) instruction is also 1) Unicode-independent and 2) processes either SBCSs or DBCSs parametrically. Halfword alignment is irrelevant in all of these cases. SBCS, DBCS, or MBCS. (A character-set element must of course begin on some byte boundary, but this 'restriction' is not really an interesting one.)
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