[open-cobol-list] unicode in 1.1, issues confined to screen section ?

[Patrick]

Hi Everyone

I am mostly focused on C on baremetal these days but I love Cobol and 
tinker whenever I can.

I think it's been said that OC 1.1 does not have unicode support. Can I 
confirm that, this only extends to the screen section and that if enough 
bytes are allocated to represent a unicode character, it will work 
correctly within the program otherwise?

I have attached a small program below. The unicode character displays 
fine. I tinkered around and found 3 bytes worked right for it. 4 or more 
bytes left trailing spaces.

-Patrick







IDENTIFICATION DIVISION .
PROGRAM-ID . unicode .

DATA DIVISION .
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION .
01 square PIC X(3) VALUE '◻' .

*****************************************************************
PROCEDURE DIVISION .

IF square = '◻'
DISPLAY 'should be ◻◻ ' square square END-DISPLAY
ELSE
DISPLAY 'fail' END-DISPLAY
END-IF

EXIT PROGRAM .
END PROGRAM unicode .