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Component‐private BER utility operation.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balber_berutil.h>`

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static
bool
useExtendedBinaryEncoding(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlt/DatetimeTz.adoc[bdlt::DatetimeTz] const& value,
    xref:BloombergLP/balber/BerEncoderOptions.adoc[BerEncoderOptions] const* options);
----

== Return Value

`true` if `value` must use extended‐binary encoding per `options`, and `false` otherwise

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *value*
| value to encode
| *options*
| encoder options (0 for defaults)
|===


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