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Appendix A National Language Support (NLS) Demonstration Micro Focus COBOL supports Internationalization as defined in the X/Open CAE Specification (1991), COBOL Language; also known as XPG4. X/Open split this down into Single-byte Internationalization Support and National-character Support which correspond to Micro Focus National Language Support (NLS) and Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) support respectively. Micro Focus NLS involves no additional COBOL syntax; it provides additional semantics for various COBOL functions (see the chapter National Language Support (NLS) in your COBOL System Reference). The NLS semantics are enabled by the NLS Compiler directive. This appendix demonstrates NLS functionality by sorting a list of European place names that include accented characters. The NLS demonstration sorts the same list using the same code twice. The NLS Compiler directive is set for the first sort; it is set off (NONLS) for the second sort. The results of the two sorts are displayed together so you can compare the different sort sequences.
NOTE The list of names has been encoded in two standard character sets: ISO 8859-1 and IBM PC. You will need a terminal that can display one of these in order to run the demonstration. Providing that you have set up the demonstration's COPY-file correctly, (see the section Running the Demonstration) the displayed results should be the same for both ISO 8859-1 and IBM PC character sets.