Objects that you export from a PBL have the same file extensions used in previous versions of PowerBuilder. The Export Library Entry dialog box lets you select the type of encoding for an exported file. The choices are ANSI/DBCS, which lets you import the file into previous versions of PowerBuilder, HEXASCII, UTF8, or Unicode LE.

The HEXASCII export format is used for source-controlled files. Unicode strings are represented by hexadecimal/ASCII strings in the exported file, which has the letters HA at the beginning of the header to identify it as a file that might contain such strings. You cannot import HEXASCII files into a previous version of PowerBuilder.

If you import an exported file from a previous version of PowerBuilder, the source code in the file is converted to Unicode before the object is added to a PowerBuilder 10 PBL.