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Language- Dependent Characteristics
For each native language supported by NLS, a number of characteristics
are known:
* Lexical conventions vary from country to country. The collating
sequence is affected by the local alphabet and usage of each
language. Upshifting tables maintained by NLS for each supported
language contain the result of upshifting any character in the
corresponding character set.
* Currency symbols (in their relationship to numbers), date, time, and
number formats are country and local custom dependent.
* Data processing tables for ASCII-to-EBCDIC and EBCDIC-to-ASCII
conversion are affected by language as the EBCDIC codes are different
from country to country.
Within NLS, all these characteristics are considered to be language
dependent. All information used by or available from NLS is based on the
application's choice of language(s). For example, NLS maintains an
English collating sequence and an English time-of-day format. In this
context, English refers specifically to the format used in England rather
than to the English language. American refers to the language, formats,
and tables used in the United States.
The exact information on any particular installed language is available
programmatically through the NLINFO intrinsic (refer to the MPE XL
Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650- 90028)) or in a report from the
NLUTIL program (refer to the MPE XL System Utilities Reference Manual
(32650- 90081)).