HP 3000 Manuals

Micro Focus COBOL System Reference, Volume 2

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

ISO8859/1:          West European languages

IBM Personal        West European languages
Computer 8-bit
Character Set:
For a complete list of languages supported, see the section Setting Up 
the National Language Environment later in this chapter.

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