Developer Guide and Reference

ID 767251
Date 10/31/2024
Public
Document Table of Contents

National Language Support Library Routines Summary

The following table lists library routines for National Language Support (NLS).

Programs that use these routines must access the NLS library with USE IFNLS. These routines are restricted to Windows* systems.

Routine names are shown in mixed case to make the names easier to understand. When writing your applications, you can use any case.

Name

Routine Type

Description

MBCharLen

Function

Returns the length of the first multibyte character in a string.

MBConvertMBToUnicode

Function

Converts a character string from a multibyte codepage to a Unicode string.

MBConvertUnicodeToMB

Function

Converts a Unicode string to a multibyte character string of the current codepage.

MBCurMax

Function

Returns the longest possible multibyte character for the current codepage.

MBINCHARQQ

Function

Same as INCHARQQ, but can read a single multibyte character at once.