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
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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.
