OPTION CHARACTER UTF8
This option statement enables Unicode characters.
The scope of this statement is the program unit where it is written.
OPTION CHARACTER BYTE
This option statement disables Unicode characters.
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.