CC8BITLEVEL environment variable
The CC8BITLEVEL environment variable determines the type of processing that the Informix® ESQL/C filter, esqlmf, performs on non-ASCII (8-bit and multibyte) characters.
See also Generate non-ASCII file names.
CC8BITLEVEL
{
0
| [ {
1
| 2
| 3
} ]
}
{ }
- Element
- Description
- 0
- The esqlmf filter converts all non-ASCII characters in literal strings and comments to octal constants (for C compilers that do not support these uses of non-ASCII characters).
- 1
- The esqlmf filter converts non-ASCII characters in literal strings to octal constants but allows them in comments (some C compilers do support non-ASCII characters in comments).
- 2
- The esqlmf filter allows non-ASCII characters in literal strings and ensures that all the bytes in the non-ASCII characters have the eighth bit set (for C compilers with this requirement).
- 3
- The esqlmf filter does not filter non-ASCII characters (for C compilers that support multibyte characters in literal strings and in comments).
To start esqlmf each time that you process the Informix®
ESQL/C source file with the esql
command, set the ESQLMF environment variable to
1. If you do
not set CC8BITLEVEL, the esql command assumes a default
value for CC8BITLEVEL of 0.Important: When
ESQLMF is set to
1 to enable automatic multibyte filtering, do
not set CC8BITLEVEL to 3.