If there are field attributes or protected fields in the target area, DBCS EHLLAPI will skip the same length of bytes in the source string as SBCS EHLLAPI does. You may utilize this fact to copy strings to multiple fields by one COPY STRING TO PS call. But such usage could cause problems with DBCS since DBCS characters may be bisected by the byte skip or may try to be copied to an SBCS field (or vice versa).