A mixed literal consists of Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) and Single-Byte Character Set (SBCS) characters.
The GRAPHIC option of the PROCESS statement is available for processing DBCS characters in mixed literals. When the GRAPHIC option is specified, mixed literals will be handled with the assumption the hex 0E and hex 0F are shift-in and shift-out characters respectively, and they enclose the DBCS characters in the mixed literal. When NOGRAPHIC is specified or implied, the ILE COBOL compiler will treat nonnumeric literals containing hex 0E and hex 0F as if they only contains SBCS characters. Hex 0E and hex 0F are not treated as shift-in and shift-out characters, they are considered to be part of the SBCS character string.
A DBCS literal consists only of Double-Byte Character Set characters and is always treated as a DBCS character string.
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