Text Data
TEXT specifies that each record consists of an arbitrary number of characters in the client session character set, followed by an end‑of‑record marker, which is:
For client session character sets other than UTF16, the end‑of‑record marker byte sequence is:
For the UTF16 client session character set (in which each character is encoded in two bytes), the end‑of‑record marker byte sequence is:
Note: TEXT format should only be specified for character data. Do not specify TEXT format for binary data, such as, INTEGER, BYTEINT, PERIOD, and other binary data. Depending on the actual byte values of the binary data, unexpected results may occur. If any non-character or ANSI date data is specified, the warning message “Warning: Text format requires all CHAR or ANSIDATE data types” will be displayed.