Field values with the ASCII, EBCDIC, UCS2 or UTF8 code attribute are referred to in the following section as plain text values. They have the
data type CHARACTER.Plain text values can be transported between operating systems and computers without being converted first.
Plain text values can be used to input data into columns of any
internal data type used by the database and can be converted to any data type. If you want to load plain text values into numerical columns, the values must be able to be interpreted as numbers.