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A-Shell Reference

Added November 2013

cformat switch: 1, 8

Two cformat codes allow you to override the default character set at the column level:

1 interprets the column data as ANSI/Latin1
8 interprets the column data as UTF8

The overall default character set for the tree is ANSI/Latin1, unless the XTF2_UTF8 flag is set, in which case it is UTF8.

Note: the entire coldef string is interpreted according to the default character set for the tree, so you cannot mix UTF8 and Latin1-encoded titles even though the corresponding columns are individually set with 1 or 8.

Two new sample programs, XUTF8B and XUTF8C illustrate both cases of mixed UTF8 and Latin1 columns.