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Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 for Visual Studio 2015 > General Reference > Error Messages > Syntax Checking Error Messages > COBCH1001 - COBCH1100 > COBCH1001 - COBCH1020 > COBCH1008 DBCS literal must contain an even number of characters...

COBCH1008 DBCS literal must contain an even number of characters. Literal truncated

All Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) symbols are two bytes (two characters) long. You have specified a literal that consists of an odd number of characters. Your COBOL system ignores the last, single character of the literal.
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