Character expansion

DBCS printers can expand characters to twice their normal width or their normal height. Specify the character expansion with the DDS character size (CHRSIZ) keyword. For example, if you specify the value CHRSIZ(2 1), the following characters:

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are printed twice as wide, but the height remains the same.

Picture of DBCS characters

To print twice as wide and twice as high, you would specify CHRSIZE (2 2).