The TCHINESE950_8R0 character set provides support for traditional Chinese (Windows Code Page 950) on network-attached clients.
Under this character set, a CHARACTER data type supports mixed single- and multibyte characters.The high order bit of the first byte in a sequence distinguishes single-byte characters from double-byte characters.
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IF the value of the first byte is … |
THEN the length of the character is … |
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less than 0x81 |
one byte |
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greater than or equal to 0x81 |
two bytes |
The TCHINESE950_8R0 character set includes definitions for the single-byte characters corresponding to seven-bit ASCII.
The character mapping tables are described in the following text files, which are available on CD and on the Web at http://www.info.teradata.com/.
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File Name (on CD) |
Title (on the Web) |
Description |
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T8R0MUCD.txt |
TCHINESE950_8R0 Multibyte to Unicode |
Maps the multibyte character portion of TCHINESE950 to Unicode. |
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T8R0SUCD.txt |
TCHINESE950_8R0 Single Byte to Unicode |
Maps the single-byte character portion of TCHINESE950 to Unicode. |