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NCHAR

Data Type Declaration Format
{NCHAR | NATIONAL {CHAR | CHARACTER}} [(length)]

NCHAR is a fixed-length character data type with the ISO8859_1 character set.In all other respects it is the same as CHAR.

Note

If no length is specified, it is taken to be 1.

A similar data type is available for the variable-length string type: NATIONAL {CHAR | CHARACTER} VARYING.

See also

[fblangref50-datatypes-chartypes-char], [fblangref50-datatypes-chartypes-varchar]

Boolean Data Type