Notations Used

The following notations are used in this document.

• DBCS character presentation

  • Normal presentation

    The following are examples of DBCS characters:

    D1D2D3
    DiDjDk
    

    where Dn indicates a DBCS character in a data stream or in a presentation space.

  • DBCS alphanumeric and special symbol presentation

    All Double-Byte Character Sets have alphanumeric and special symbols. Those DBCS characters are expressed as (.x), where x is from the Single-Byte Character Set. For example, (.G) is G in a DBCS.

  • Hexadecimal presentation

    xxxxH is the general representation of a DBCS character.

  
  SBCS character presentation

  • Normal presentation

    SBCS characters used in examples are represented by:

    ssssss
    abcdef
    

  • Hexadecimal presentation

    xxH is the general representation of a SBCS character. For example, 41H is the code point of A.

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