Data Transformation Engine Type Designer Reference Guide

Chapter 5 - Item Properties Number Item Subclass Properties
National language > Data language
Use the National language > Data language property to define the data
language or character set of this character text item. The available options are
listed in the following table.
Property Description
Native Literal values for this character text item use the application’s
native data language.
ASCII Literal values for this character text item use ASCII for the data
language.
EBCDIC Literal values for this character text item use EBCDIC (Extended
Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code), an IBM code for
representing characters as numbers.
Latin1 Literal values for this character text item use Latin1 for the data
language. Latin1 uses the byte values in the 0x80-0xFF range
to represent characters that are not defined in ASCII.
UNICODE
Big Endian
Literal values for this character text item use UNICODE for the
data language. The rightmost bytes are most significant.
UNICODE
Little Endian
Literal values for this character text item use UNICODE for the
data language. The leftmost bytes are most significant.
UTF-8 Literal values for this character text item use UTF-8 (Universal
Transformation Format 8), which is an ASCII- compatible
multibyte Unicode and UCS encoding.
None
Expand the None or Zero property to specify an override data value for None or
define the Special value and Required on input properties.
None > Special value and Zero > Special value
Enter a special value if the item is None or Zero.
For example, if you specify
* as the special value for NONE, and a text object has
the value
*, it will be interpreted as NONE.
Note If you enter a special value for None, enter the exact characters to be validated
and built in the output data.