Kanji (Double-byte characters)
OPTION CHARACTER KANJI
This option statement enables Microsoft Double-Byte Character Set (known as Shift-JIS character set).
The scope of this statement is the program unit where it is written.
This works properly only on Japanese Edition of Windows.
OPTION CHARACTER BYTE
This option statement disables Microsoft Double-Byte Character Set.
The scope of this statement is the program unit where it is written.
Note that Full BASIC standardizes only characters of which ordinal is less than 128.
When you manipulate byte strings or a byte file, you must write these in the program units where substring operations, POS-functions, CHR$-functions, ORD-functions, LEN-functions or CHARACTER INPUT statements are used.