If you use a programmable workstation or a 3270 terminal, you can follow Figure 1 to ensure that the host system uses the correct hexadecimal values to display the variant characters. See iconv in z/OS XL C/C++ User's Guide for more information on this utility. See Inserting and viewing square brackets during an ISPF edit session for instructions to insert square brackets into a C/C++ source file.
Figure 1. Variant characters