Wednesday, January 24, 2007

What are Code points?

All data is stored as bytes. For example, in our DB2 for Z/OS (which uses EBCDIC) systems, the character 'a' is being stored as X'81', the character 'A' is stored as X'C1' and the character representation of number '1' is X'F1'.

These byte representations for characters are called Code points.

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