The intrinsic functions CHAR and ORD are dependent on the ordinal positions of characters. These intrinsic functions are not supported for the DBCS data type (for example, supported for single-byte characters, alphabetic or numeric). The results of these functions are all based on the collating sequence in effect. The current code page does not affect the result of these intrinsic functions.
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