The TCHBIG5_1R0 character set provides support for traditional Chinese (Big5) on network-attached clients.
For TCHBIG5_1R0, a CHARACTER data type supports mixed single- and multibyte characters. The value of the first byte in the sequence distinguishes single-byte characters from double-byte characters.
IF the value of the first byte is … | THEN the length of the character is … |
---|---|
less than 0x81 | one byte |
greater than or equal to 0x81 | two bytes |