Github user DaveBirdsall commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/trafodion/pull/1544#discussion_r187071098
--- Diff: docs/sql_reference/src/asciidoc/_chapters/sql_functions_and_expressions.adoc
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@@ -573,22 +573,578 @@ ASCII is a {project-name} SQL extension.
ASCII (character-expression)
```
-* `_character-expression`
+* `_character-expression_`
+
is an SQL character value expression that specifies a string of
-characters. See <<character_value_expressions,Character Value Expressions>>.
+characters.
++
+For more information, see <<character_value_expressions,Character Value Expressions>>.
[[considerations_for_ascii]]
=== Considerations For ASCII
-For a string expression in the UTF8 character set, if the value of the
-first byte in the string is greater than 127, {project-name} SQL returns this
-error message:
+ASCII function handles string and column differently:
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Suggested wordsmith: "The ASCII function handles string literals and columns differently:"
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