Specifies the type of characters to be used during the current CDO session. Valid Character Set Names lists the valid character set names. Table 1-6 Valid Character Set Names Character Character Set Type Set Description MCS DEC_MCS A set of international alphanumeric characters Kanji+ASCII DEC_KANJI Japanese characters as defined by the JIS X0208:1990 standard, Narrow Katakana characters, as defined by the JIS X0201:1976 standard, and ASCII characters