Unicode considerations

This topic describes new Unicode function in z/OS®:

• Case, Collation, Character Conversion, and Normalization services upgraded to Unicode 6.0 standard - The Case, Collation, Character Conversion, and Normalization services in z/OS Unicode meet the Unicode 6.0 standard in z/OS V2R1.
• Dynamic Locale Service - z/OS Unicode Services allows the locales to be created dynamically when needed, based on the information in the open source CLDR repository. z/OS Unicode Services returns the locale data to the caller.
• Support for Japanese EUC standard - z/OS Unicode Services added new CCSIDs to support the revised Japanese EUC (Extended Unix Code) standard. The CCSIDs added are: 17338, 21434, and 37818.

Reference information:

• z/OS Unicode Services User's Guide and Reference
• z/OS MVS System Commands
• z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference