NLSCHR: Converting Characters From the Native English Code Page

Available Operating Systems: All

Available Languages: Maintain

How to:

Convert Characters From the Native English Code Page

Example:

Converting Characters From the Native English Code Page

NLSCHR converts a character from the native English code page to the running code page. This is useful when hosting Web applications on an EBCDIC host with non-English code pages.


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Syntax: How to Convert Characters From the Native English Code Page

NLSCHR("character")

where:

character

Is the character being converted from the native English code page.


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Example: Converting Characters From the Native English Code Page

NLSCHR forces the dollar sign to display whenever the variable ADOLLAR is used regardless of the code page being run.

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ADOLLAR/A1=NLSCHR("$");
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