RUNTIME-ENCODING

Determines the run-time encoding.

Syntax:

>>--.---.----RUNTIME-ENCODING--"encoding"-.-><

Parameters:

encoding

Possible values are:

ANSI
OEM
UTF8

Properties:

Default:	OEM
Phase:	Syntax check
$SET	Initial

Dependencies:

If this directive is not specified, the run-time encoding is determined by the SOURCE-ENCODING directive. In this case, if the source encoding is any of the possible UTF variants, the run-time encoding of PIC X data is always set to UTF-8.

Comments:

RUNTIME-ENCODING determines how strings are encoded into PIC X data and therefore does not include UTF-16 options.

Example:

$set RUNTIME-ENCODING"ANSI"