Unicode incorporates almost all the text characters known around the world in a single character set. Unicode is also independent of the various manufacturers, systems and countries.
Unicode support in BS2000 extends the EBCDIC character sets which are available in BS2000 systems by additional characters which are required in the European language area. The programming and runtime environment is made available to users, who require this to expand their existing applications by the addition of Unicode data fields. For this purpose a corresponding software configuration is provided under BS2000. The XHCS subsystem for Unicode support in BS2000 is loaded by default.
For general information on Unicode, please refer to the website of the Unicode Consortium: http://www.unicode.org.
For detailed information on Unicode in BS2000, please refer to the “Unicode in BS2000” manual [58].