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.