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Chapter 8: INFORMIX-ESQL/C Features
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Non-ASCII Characters in Host Variables

ESQL/C allows the use of non-ASCII characters in host variables when the following conditions are true:

ESQL/C applications can also support non-ASCII characters in comments and SQL identifiers. For more information, see "Non-ASCII Characters in ESQL Source Files".

The following code fragment declares an integer host variable that contains a non-ASCII character in the host variable name and then selects a serial value into this variable:

As long as the client locale supports the non-ASCII characters, you can use these characters to define indicator variables, as the following example shows:

You can then access indicator variables with these non-ASCII names, as the following example shows:




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