When redefining literals, you can change the text and the display properties. After changing the text, you must reposition the literal.
The literal can contain up to 80 characters, including international characters.
If you size prompts or literals in one dialect, and then change the dialect and resize the prompt or literal, the larger size remains in effect for placement purposes (copy or move).
Suppose you have two dialects-Default and French. You create a literal under the default dialect with a size of 25 characters. Then, you select the French dialect and resize the literal to 10 characters. The literal you see in the Screen Design tool is 10 characters.
If you select the literal, however, and then select copy or move, the box that surrounds the literal is still 25 characters. The amount of space reserved for the literal remains 25 characters, which is the larger of the two sizes. This feature allows you to switch back and forth between dialects without causing spacing problems on the terminal screen.
Note that you can place the 10-character literal only as you could place a 25-character literal. Other fields, for example, cannot be closer to the 10-character literal than they could be to a 25-character literal.
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