Unicode UTF-16 data from character constants

For Character Unicode (CU) constants the value is converted to Unicode UTF-16 using the code page identified by the CODEPAGE assembler option. Any paired occurrences of ampersands and apostrophes are converted to a single occurrence of such a character prior to conversion. If necessary the value is padded with EBCDIC spaces on the right (X'40'). The assembler then maps each EBCDIC character into its 2 byte Unicode UTF-16 equivalent.

For example:

UA     DC       CU'UTF-16'        object code X' 005500540046002D00310036'
UB     DC       CUL4'L'           object code X' 004C0020'
UC     DC       CUL2'XYZ'         object code X' 0058'