Comparing national and other character-string operands
You
can compare the character value of
a national literal or class national data item with the character
value of any of the following other character-string operands: alphabetic,
alphanumeric, alphanumeric-edited, DBCS, or numeric-edited of USAGE
DISPLAY
.
These operands are treated as if they were moved to an elementary national data item. The characters are converted to national (UTF-16) representation, and the comparison proceeds with two national character operands.