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package scala.dbc
package datatype;


/** A type category for all SQL types that store strings of characters. */
abstract class CharacterString extends String {
  
  type NativeType = java.lang.String;
  val nativeTypeId = DataType.STRING;
  
  /** The name of the character set in which the string is encoded. */
  def encoding: Option[java.lang.String] = None;
  
}
