text type

Text types are defining strings of characters with different properties. All text types allow defining a maximum size for the character value, which refers to the relevant number of characters in the string.

• CHAR - character buffer (local 8 bit encoding)

• STRING - 0-terminated string (Latin1 8 bit encoding)

• LATIN1 - 0-terminated string (latin1 8 bit encoding)

• ASCII - 0-terminates ASCII character string

• LOCAL - 0-terminated string (local 8 bit encoding)

• UTF8 - 0-terminated unicode string (UTF8 encoding)

• UTF16 - 0-terminated unicode string (UTF16 encoding)

• UTF32 - 0-terminated unicode string (UTF32 encoding)

• CCHAR - coded character value

For ODMG, C++ and Java compatibility, ODABA supports lower case synonyms for type names as char or string when being used in ODABA Script Interface (OSI)..