HP 3000 Manuals

COBOL/HP-UX Operating Guide for the Series 700 and 800

Overview 

The NLS facility provides you with the means to access the following
features which are associated with particular countries and character
sets:

   *   Class condition tests (ALPHABETIC, ALPHABETIC-UPPER,
       ALPHABETIC-LOWER, NUMERIC and user-defined CLASS conditions),
       appropriate to national and multinational character sets

   *   Linguistic collating sequences, appropriate to West European
       languages (for example, the correct handling of accented
       characters)

   *   Linguistic collating sequences applied to indexed files

   *   Linguistic collating sequences applied to sort or merge files

Examples of language and character sets which can be accommodated are:

ISO646 National Variants:     French, German, Swedish, Danish, Italian,
                              Spanish, Portuguese

ISO8859/1:                    West European languages

IBM Personal Computer 8-bit   West European languages
Character Set:

For a complete list of languages supported, see the section "Setting up
the National Language Environment" .

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