OMG char data type in IDL files

Successful communications between clients and servers can involve codeset conversions. But CORBA limits the size of a char data item to one octet during transportation. So if any char data item is expanded to more than one octet in length during code set conversion, a CORBA::DATA_CONVERSION exception is thrown.

Use the char data type for a parameter or return result when the parameter or return result can contain data from the Portable Character Set only. For more information, see "Character set restriction". Otherwise, use a string data type or char array.


Related concepts
Character set restriction
Related reference
CORBA internationalization considerations



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