Examples of length settings in conversions

Table 2-15 illustrates length adjustments required for some workstation-to-mainframe Japanese character set conversions.

Table 2-15: Length-settings in Japanese character set conversions

Source character set

Source datatypes

Source length

Target character set

Target datatypes

Target length

EUCJIS hankaku katakana

character

8

IBM Kanji hankaku katakana

character

4

EUCJIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

character

10

EUCJIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

graphic

4

Shift-JIS hankaku katakana

character

4

IBM Kanji hankaku katakana

character

4

Shift-JIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

character

10

Shift-JIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

graphic

4

IBM Kanji hankaku katakana

character

4

EUC-JIS hankaku katakana

character

8

IBM Kanji hankaku katakana

character

4

Shift-JIS hankaku katakana

character

4

IBM Kanji kanji

character

10

EUC-JIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

character

10

Shift-JIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

graphic

4

EUC-JIS kanji

character

8

IBM Kanji kanji

graphic

4

Shift-JIS kanji

character

8