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Testing process . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Packaging and installation process. . . . . 55 Application maintenance process . . . . . 56 Designing globalized applications . . . . . . 56 Checklist: Application design . . . . . . 56 Globalization and localization . . . . . . 58 Application arrangement and architecture . . 59 Program module separation . . . . . . 60 Application part names . . . . . . . 61 Specification references . . . . . . . 63 Database definitions . . . . . . . . 64 User interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Checklist: User interface design. . . . . 65 Text translation design. . . . . . . . 66 Textual data code design . . . . . . . 68 User interface manager . . . . . . . 72 Program message design . . . . . . . 75 Menu design . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Command design . . . . . . . . . 78 Cultural-dependent design . . . . . . 79 Display file design . . . . . . . . . 89 Printer file design and translation . . . . 93 Source file design . . . . . . . . . 94 Character data representation architecture design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Handling languages with no NLV support 97 Programming considerations in globalized application design . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Coding globalized applications with high-level languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Language compilers CCSID . . . . . . 98 Session manager . . . . . . . . . 100 ILE C considerations . . . . . . . . 101 ILE RPG sort sequence . . . . . . . 101 ILE COBOL sort sequence . . . . . . 103 DB2 and SQL sort sequence . . . . . 104 System i Access sort sequence . . . . . 105 Coding globalized applications that use bidirectional data . . . . . . . . . . 106 Using message catalogs . . . . . . . . 108 Source for message catalogs . . . . . 108 Opening, extracting, and closing message catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Delivering globalized applications . . . . . 111 Handling data in globalized applications . . . . 112 Working with Unicode . . . . . . . . . 112 Why use Unicode . . . . . . . . . . 113 Different encodings of Unicode . . . . . 113 UTF-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 UTF-16 . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 UTF-32 . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 UCS-2 and its relationship to Unicode (UTF-16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 How Unicode relates to prior standards such as ASCII and EBCDIC . . . . . . . . 116 International Components for Unicode . . . 118 Mapping of data . . . . . . . . . . 118 Example: Displaying data without Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Example: Displaying data with Unicode 120 Unicode on i5/OS . . . . . . . . . . 121 iv System i: Programming i5/OS globalization Database files and functions . . . . . 121 DB2 for i . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 SQL tables . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Query files and tools . . . . . . . . 125 Data description specifications. . . . . 125 Display files and panel groups . . . . 125 Unicode variables in user interface manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 GB18030: The Chinese standard . . . . . . 126 Working with CCSIDs . . . . . . . . . 127 Recommendations and guidelines for using CCSIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 i5/OS function support for CCSIDs . . . . 129 Database management . . . . . . . 132 Work management . . . . . . . . 133 Workstation function management . . . 134 CCSID support for messages . . . . . 138 Changing the CCSID of a physical file . . . 157 Character sorting . . . . . . . . . . 158 i5/OS sort sequence support . . . . . 158 ICU-based sort support . . . . . . . 174 Working with bidirectional data . . . . . . 176 Bidirectional application support . . . . . 176 Checklist: Bidirectional support guidelines 178 Working with DBCS data . . . . . . . . 179 Checklist: DBCS application design . . . . 180 Developing applications that process DBCS data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Use of double-byte data . . . . . . . 181 DBCS coding considerations . . . . . 181 Processing double-byte characters . . . 184 Display support . . . . . . . . . 185 Making printer files DBCS capable . . . 186 Copying spooled and nonspooled DBCS files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Changing alphanumeric programs to DBCS programs . . . . . . . . . 189 Entering DBCS text in CL commands . . 189 DBCS conversion . . . . . . . . . 190 SQL and DBCS . . . . . . . . . . 193 DBCS code schemes . . . . . . . . . 196 DBCS font tables . . . . . . . . . . 197 Copying a DBCS font table . . . . . . 198 Deleting a DBCS font table . . . . . . 199 DBCS font files . . . . . . . . . . . 200 DBCS sort tables . . . . . . . . . . 200 Saving and restoring a DBCS sort table 202 Deleting a DBCS sort table . . . . . . 202 DBCS field definition . . . . . . . . . 203 Working with locales . . . . . . . . . . 203 Locale restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 204 Locale categories . . . . . . . . . . 204 LC_COLLATE category . . . . . . . 206 LC_CTYPE category . . . . . . . . 210 LC_MESSAGES category . . . . . . 212 LC_MONETARY category . . . . . . 213 LC_NUMERIC category . . . . . . . 216 LC_TIME category . . . . . . . . 217 LC_TOD category . . . . . . . . . 221 Locale symbolic names . . . . . . . . 223 Examples: Locale programming . . . . . 224
Example: How locales work . . . . . 224 Example: Creating and enabling a locale 228 Example: Producing unique monetary formats . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Example: Locales as part of a multilingual environment. . . . . . . . . . . 233 Example: POSIX locale . . . . . . . 236 Example: EN_US locale . . . . . . . 241 Globalization reference information . . . . . . 250 National language version feature codes . . . 250 Country and region identifiers. . . . . . . 252 Default system values for national language versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Albanian (Feature 2995) . . . . . . . . 259 Arabic (Feature 2954) . . . . . . . . . 260 Belgian Dutch MNCS (Feature 2963). . . . 260 Belgium English (Feature 2909) . . . . . 260 Belgian French MNCS (Feature 2966) . . . 260 Brazilian Portuguese (Feature 2980) . . . . 261 Bulgarian (Feature 2974). . . . . . . . 261 Canadian French MNCS (Feature 2981) . . . 261 Croatian (Feature 2912) . . . . . . . . 261 Czech (Feature 2975) . . . . . . . . . 262 Danish (Feature 2926) . . . . . . . . 262 Dutch Netherlands (Feature 2923) . . . . 262 English Uppercase and Lowercase (Feature 2924) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 English Uppercase DBCS (Feature 2938) . . 263 English Uppercase and Lowercase DBCS (Feature 2984) . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Estonian (Feature 2902) . . . . . . . . 264 Farsi (Feature 2998) . . . . . . . . . 264 Finnish (Feature 2925) . . . . . . . . 264 French (Feature 2928). . . . . . . . . 265 French MNCS (Feature 2940) . . . . . . 265 German (Feature 2929) . . . . . . . . 265 German MNCS (Feature 2939) . . . . . . 265 Greek (Feature 2957) . . . . . . . . . 266 Hebrew (Feature 2961) . . . . . . . . 266 Hungarian (Feature 2976) . . . . . . . 266 Icelandic (Feature 2958) . . . . . . . . 266 Italian (Feature 2932) . . . . . . . . . 267 Italian MNCS (Feature 2942) . . . . . . 267 Japanese Universal (Feature 2930) . . . . 267 Japanese (Katakana) (Feature 2962) . . . . 267 Korean (Feature 2986) . . . . . . . . 268 Laotian (Feature 2906) . . . . . . . . 268 Latvian (Feature 2904) . . . . . . . . 268 Lithuanian (Feature 2903) . . . . . . . 268 Macedonian (Feature 2913) . . . . . . . 269 Norwegian (Feature 2933) . . . . . . . 269 Polish (Feature 2978) . . . . . . . . . 269 Portuguese (Feature 2922) . . . . . . . 269 Portuguese MNCS (Feature 2996). . . . . 270 Romanian (Feature 2992) . . . . . . . 270 Russian (Feature 2979) . . . . . . . . 270 Serbian (Feature 2914) . . . . . . . . 270 Simplified Chinese (Feature 2989) . . . . 271 Slovakian (Feature 2994). . . . . . . . 271 Slovenian (Feature 2911) . . . . . . . . 271 Spanish (Feature 2931) . . . . . . . . 272 Swedish (Feature 2937) . . . . . . . . 272 Thai (Feature 2972) . . . . . . . . . 272 Traditional Chinese (Feature 2987) . . . . 272 Turkish (Feature 2956) . . . . . . . . 273 Vietnamese (Feature 2905) . . . . . . . 273 System values for other languages with no national language version . . . . . . . . 273 Workstation controllers reference . . . . . . 275 Twinaxial workstation controller requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 275 ASCII workstation controller requirements 279 5394 remote workstation controller requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Determining the number of supported keyboard types . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Keyboard reference information . . . . . . 281 Keyboard layouts . . . . . . . . . . 281 Albanian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 282 Arabic IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 282 Austrian German IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Belgian Multinational IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Brazilian Portuguese IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Bulgarian Cyrillic IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Canadian French IBM Enhanced Keyboard 284 Croatian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 284 Czech IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 285 Danish IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 285 Dutch IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 285 Farsi IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 286 Finnish/Swedish IBM Enhanced Keyboard 286 French (AZERTY) IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Greek IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 287 Hebrew IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 287 Hebrew, Latin IBM Enhanced Keyboard 287 Hungarian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . 288 Italian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 288 Japanese IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 288 Korean IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 289 Macedonian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . 289 Norwegian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . 289 Polish IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . . 290 Portuguese IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . 290 Romanian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 290 Russian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 291 Serbian Cyrillic IBM Enhanced Keyboard 291 Slovakian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 291 Slovenian IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 292 Spanish-Speaking IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Spanish IBM Enhanced Keyboard . . . 292 Swiss-Bilingual-French IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Swiss-Bilingual-German IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Traditional Chinese IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Contents v
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Page 4 and 5: Note Before using this information
Page 8 and 9: Turkish IBM Enhanced Keyboard. . .
Page 10 and 11: Downloading Adobe Reader You need A
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Page 14 and 15: CDRA uses a tag field to hold a CCS
Page 16 and 17: Locales are made up of categories t
Page 18 and 19: IBM-supplied subsystem descriptions
Page 20 and 21: For example: STRSBS USERLIB/ABC Rel
Page 22 and 23: The following list shows the cultur
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Page 34 and 35: The libraries in the system part of
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Page 42 and 43: Changing the keyboard configuration
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The following example shows the SQL
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If the user wants to display this d
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Market research process In the mark
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Translation process Translating the
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Related concepts: “Subsystems”
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Globalization and localization Nati
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Program module separation: You can
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Textual data v Display files v Prin
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Complies Not applicable Rule Specia
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Textual data code design: You can u
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Display files only Constants such a
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Text can be stored externally from
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For each ISCH tag, there can be sev
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v Use predefined message descriptio
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Menu translation To allow for easy
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Related concepts: “Coded characte
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v Currency symbol v Date format v D
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Note: Some operating system functio
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The time format for presentation sh
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Designing for running with differen
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Related concepts: “Cultural-depen
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For example: A field-name length ty
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v Use the MSGCON keyword to access
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French display job CCSID 00297 Germ
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Coding globalized applications with
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C FLD1 IFEQ ’ ’ C ... C* Move c
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The alternative collating sequence
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exception to this is that the value
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v RANGE predicate v MAX function v
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The special bidirectional tags have
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Using multiple source files You can
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eference manuals for non-IBM hardwa
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UTF-8: UTF-8 converts Unicode data
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Related concepts: “UTF-16” on p
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Unicode provides a single character
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Assume that the Greek user wants to
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When you create Unicode database ap
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Unicode data is not supported on di
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v Avoid using characters that are n
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Function Description of support DDM
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Related concepts: Changing the CCSI
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Work management support initializes
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Related concepts: “Character iden
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Printer file CHRID is And the panel
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For example, message file MYMSGF ha
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If you set CCSID processing on, sys
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Example 2: Using return fields and
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3 The replacement data was converte
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Two different conversions must occu
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Can I correct the CCSID of a messag
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Related concepts: “Display files
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How to build sort sequence tables T
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GCGID Character Shared weight Uniqu
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The LANGID and SRTSEQ parameters de
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The following table shows an exampl
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en_us ICU locale sort sequence usin
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v Remember to use the graphic data
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This table summarizes the changes o
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Inserting shift-control characters
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Copying spooled files Copy spooled
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Limit the length of a double-byte c
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You might call the dictionary by an
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The basic symbols of keywords and o
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If the string contains mixed data,
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QIGC3232 A Japanese DBCS font table
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controller as those devices, and th
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If the table does not exist, the sy
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v SS:MM:HH Creating locales Locales
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A string is a sequence of character
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where directive is one of the direc
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LC_COLLATE CPYSYSCOL "//QSYS.LIB//Q
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punct ;;;\ ;;;;\ ;;;\ ;;;;;\ ;;;;\
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The LC_MONETARY category of a local
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Example 4 Indicates that the positi
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values consist of seven semicolon-s
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the era extends forward to the end
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2. The values specified in the LC_T
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v The second through fifth characte
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This value is specified when the LO
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This is because the user profile SE
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COLUMNS ...: 1 71 EDIT localelib/lo
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characters available, unpredictable
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UNDEFINED order_end END
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QDATFMT QTIMSEP QCCSID QCNTRYID QLO
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Greek (Feature 2957) The table show
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Korean (Feature 2986) The table sho
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Portuguese MNCS (Feature 2996) The
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Spanish (Feature 2931) The table sh
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QDATFMT QTIMSEP QCCSID QCNTRYID QLA
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The sum of the computational factor
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Language Netherlands Dutch Netherla
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v Italian v Italian MNCS v Norwegia
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Related concepts: “Determining th
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Accent Key Valid characters Example
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Farsi IBM Enhanced Keyboard: The fi
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Hungarian IBM Enhanced Keyboard: Th
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Polish IBM Enhanced Keyboard: The f
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Slovenian IBM Enhanced Keyboard: Th
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Turkish IBM Enhanced Keyboard: The
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v 38F5835 v 38F5843 v 38F5845 v 56F
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Language KBDTYPE parameter 1A (122-
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Language KBDTYPE parameter German (
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The special characters on the enhan
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Language KBDTYPE EBCDIC character s
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GCGID Description Graphic character
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Code page Table object for monocase
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T.61 Character Set 01252 This figur
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Table name From description From va
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CCSID Encoding Description 00424 11
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Checklist Where you can go to read
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