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■ ICU conversion, together with SAGTRPC as the conversion routine in the broker, takes care
of data increase/decrease. This is the standard approach for multibyte (non-modal) and
double-byte (modal) codepages. See ICU Conversion under Introduction to Internationalization.
In environments where single-byte codepages are used:
■ The amount of data (field length) neither increases nor descreases.
■ ICU Conversion, together with SAGTCHA as the conversion routine in the broker, is the
standard approach here. See ICU Conversion under Introduction to Internationalization.
For more information, see What is the Best Internationalization Approach to Use? under Introduction
to Internationalization.
18. The IDL types K and KV fields allow for IBM modal codepages to transfer double-byte data
without SO and SI bytes. This feature is designed for use in Asian countries.
If SAGTRPC is used as the conversion routine in the broker:
■ SO and SI bytes may not be contained in IDL type K and KV fields
■ double-byte characters are allowed in IDL type K and KV fields only
■ single-byte characters cannot be transferred in IDL type K and KV fields
If SAGTRPC User Exit is used as the conversion routine in the broker:
■ the handling of the different IDL type fields depends on the implementation of the SAGTRPC
User Exit.
■ This is the customer's responsibility. See Writing SAGTRPC User Exits in the platform-specific
administration documentation.
For more information see What is the Best Internationalization Approach to Use? under Introduction
to Internationalization.
19. The length is given in 2-byte Unicode code units following the Unicode standard. UTF-16. The
maximum length is restricted to 805306367 2-byte code units.
Depending on your target environment and target programming language, the mapping may
follow a different Unicode standard, for example UTF-32.
Rules for Coding IDL Files
1. Statements and their lexical entities can begin in any column and are separated by any number
of whitespace characters: blank, new line carriage return, horizontal tab, and form feed.
2. The maximum line length allowed in an IDL file is 256 characters.
3. Comments can be entered in the following ways:
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