To specify the encoding that was used when writing MIF statements on Chinese and Korean systems, a MIFEncoding statement is added at the top of Chinese and Korean MIF files:
On Chinese systems, the statement indicates either traditional or simplified encodings:
<MIFEncoding 中文> #originally written as Traditional Chinese (Big5/EUC-TW)
or
<MIFEncoding 中文> #originally written as Simplified Chinese
The two Chinese characters in the statement mean “Chinese.” The hexadecimal representation for these two characters is A4A4 A4E5 in Big5, C4E3 C5F3 in EUC-TW, and D6D0 CEC4 in EUC-CN.
On Korean systems, the statement is:
<MIFEncoding 한국어> #originally written as Korean
The three Korean characters in the statement mean “Korean.” Their hexadecimal representation is C7D1 B1B9 BEEE. On Chinese and Korean systems, four MIF keywords are used to specify the numbering style of autonumber formats:
<FWLCAlpha> indicates full-width lowercase (Western) alphabetical characters.
<FWUCAlpha> indicates full-width uppercase alphabetical characters.
<FWArabic> indicates full-width Arabic numerals.
<ChineseNumeric> indicates Chinese numerals.
See Autonumbering for the corresponding building blocks.