Multibyte Text

If Marine project has been identified as multibyte (PROJECT MBCHARSET in the Admin module), it is possible for users to enter multibyte element names and attributes in some Marine modules. This allows Far Eastern users to enter Kanji text, which is stored in Marine as multibyte text (two bytes per Kanji character). This also applies to the Chinese alphabet.

Kanji and Chinese text can be input to or returned by DARs routines. The method of interpreting multibyte names and text accessed through DARs is detailed in Multibyte Text Handling.