Double byte codes in HULFT

HULFT treats multibyte codes other than single byte codes as double byte codes.

For details on codes that HULFT treats as single byte codes, refer to Single byte codes in HULFT.

HULFT uses the following types of double byte codes:

Table 1.10 Code Sets of Double Byte Codes that HULFT Uses

Conversion Type

Code Set Type

Type-EBCDIC Code Set

Type-ASCII Code Set

Code-set Conversion for Japanese

  • IBM Kanji

  • Fujitsu Kanji (JEF)

  • Shift-JIS

  • EUC-JP

  • UTF-8

Code-set Conversion for Chinese

  • IBM Simplified Chinese

  • GB18030

  • UTF-8

In Code-set Conversion for Japanese, HULFT can carry out code conversion only between code sets choosable in Code-set Conversion for Japanese.

In Code-set Conversion for Chinese, HULFT can carry out code conversion only between code sets listed as choosable in Code-set Conversion for Chinese.