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National Substitution Sets
Many Hewlett-Packard peripherals support the 7-bit national substitution
sets for the following languages. They are listed here as they appear on
the terminal configuration menus of the terminals that support them:
DANSK/NORSK
DEUTSCH
ESPANOL
ESPANOL M
FRANCAIS
FRANCAIS M
ITALIANO (On a few devices only.)
SVENSK/SUOMI
UK
These are 7-bit national substitution character sets or languages in
which one or more of 12 USASCII graphic symbols are replaced by other
graphic symbols required for the national language being used. The same
7-bit internal code is displayed as a different symbol than that assigned
to it by USASCII. For example, in USASCII the decimal value 35 is
assigned to the graphic symbol "#"; but in the FRANCAIS national
substitution set, the same decimal value 35 is assigned to the graphic
symbol ";".
Users who have been using HP 262X terminals in 7-bit operation for many
years may have a substantial investment in data that is encoded in one of
these 7-bit national substitution character sets. Hewlett-Packard makes
several conversion utilities to convert this data to ROMAN8.