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MPE XL Native Language Programmer's Guide

Intrinsics 

One option for obtaining NLS features from an application program is
through calls to specific NLS intrinsics, primarily in MPE XL. To receive
a local language date format, an application should call the NLFMTDATE
intrinsic instead of the FMTDATE intrinsic.

Additional NLS features can be obtained by specifying values for extended
or new parameters in existing intrinsics.  For example, SORTINIT in
SORT-MERGE has been extended to allow the specification of a character
key and a native language ID number (langnum) that determines the
collating sequence to be used.


NOTE  These additional parameters must be used in an application to sort
      according to native language values.

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