Chapter 2: Topics

Summary of datatypes used with Japanese characters

The following datatypes listed in Table 2-13 are used with Japanese characters.

**Table 2-13: Datatypes used with Japanese characters**
Datatype	Used with	Uses SO/SI or SS2	Length measures
TDSCHAR TDSVARYCHAR	DBCS and SBCS. At the workstation and at the mainframe.	IBM Kanji: Uses SO/SI with double-byte characters. EUC-JIS: Uses SS2 with hankaku katakana.	For all character sets: Number of bytes. Maximum length for TDSCHAR and TDSVARYCHAR is 255.
TDSGRAPHIC TDSVARYGRAPHIC	DBCS only. At mainframe only.	No.	Number of characters. Maximum length is 127.