string | The DATA string to translate. |
encoding | The encoding codepage (supported by IBM's ICU) to use for the translation. |
Return: | TOUNICODE returns a single UNICODE value. |
The TOUNICODE function returns the string translated from the DATA value to the specified unicode encoding.
Example:
DATA5 x := FROMUNICODE(u'ABCDE','UTF-8');
y := TOUNICODE(x,'US-ASCII');
OUTPUT(x); //results in 4142434445
OUTPUT(y); //results in 'ABCDE'
See Also: FROMUNICODE, UNICODEORDER