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Supported Country Codes

Visual COBOL has built-in support for the following character sets. The numbering convention used for single-byte character sets is that defined by the CCIT/ITU country code.

Support is provided for the following character set conversions, except where indicated:

Country code Language
AUTOMATIC Operating system default
AUTO Operating system default
DEFAULT US English
0031 Dutch
0033 French
0034 Spanish
0039 Italian
0043 German (Austrian)
0044 UK English
0045 Danish
0046 Swedish
0047 Norwegian
0049 German
0066 Thai Extended
0081 *Japanese Katakana Extended
0082 *Korean
0086 *Simplified Chinese
0351 Portuguese
0358 Finnish
0437 US English
0500 International (Latin 1)
0886 *Traditional Chinese
0939 *Japanese Latin Extended
9122 *Japanese Katakana

Character sets marked with an asterisk (*) are capable of mixed single-byte and double-byte character conversion.

On Windows platforms, to use the Euro symbol (€), prefix the country code for EURO codesets with "E".

On UNIX platforms, always prefix the country code for EURO codesets with "E".

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