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System Marks

Universe has a set of System “Mark” ‘System Mark’ characters which are used to support multi-valued strings. These characters are represented as fixed ASCII values, have special handling when converting to and from NLS Code pages and Unicode, and can be accessed directly using system variables. The table below shows the ASCII and Unicode Hex Values for each System Mark:

System Variable

Description

ASCII Character

Unicode Character

@IM

Item Mark

0xFF

0xF8FF

@FM

Field Mark

0xFE

0xF8FE

@VM

Value Mark

0xFD

0xF8FD

@SM

Subvalue Sub-value Mark

0xFC

0xF8FC

@TM

Text Mark

0xFB

0xF8FB

@NULL.STR

Null String

0x80

0xF8F7

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