ENCODING

Overrides character encoding translations.

Syntax:

ENCODING={ASCII | EBCDIC | UNICODE}

Properties:

Default:

None

Comments:

Use this directive to override the character set translation type associated with the character set type specified by the CHARSET compiler directive. For example, use ENCODING=UNICODE when you want the program to receive Unicode data into standard (not NATIONAL) variables that would ordinarily contain either ASCII or EBCDIC data.

When not specified, encoding is dictated by the CHARSET compiler directive setting, which is either ASCII or EBCDIC.