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We are now looking to expand the market for this product into countries such as China. To achieve this I have been informed we need to enable our application for Double Byte Character Set (DBCS).
"DBCS" is an old, pre-Unicode term for character sets with Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.
Yes, exactly. In that sense, Unicode support is a superset of "DBCS enablement". A Unicode-based application may have to convert between various charsets and Unicode on the edges, but all the support you need is provided internally by processing Unicode.This confuses me when I read of UNICODE. If the AS400 supports UNICODE, and assuming DBCS & UNICODE are mutually exclusive, would it not make more sense to enable for UNICODE only from the outset?
Best regards,
markus
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