You can use a quoted character string literal qualified by the name of a character set. The character string must contain characters only from the named character set. A string literal qualified by a character set begins with an underscore (_), followed by the name of a supported character set, and a quoted string. No blank spaces are allowed outside of the literal. The following example shows how to qualify character strings with DEC_MCS and with DEC_KANJI: _DEC_MCS'Blue' _DEC_KANJI'Blue' You can use a national character string literal, which is a quoted character string literal qualified by the national character set. The character string must contain characters only from the national character set. A national character string literal begins with the letter N followed by a quoted string. No blank spaces are allowed outside of the literal. The following example shows how to qualify a character string with the national character set: N'Blue'