Appendix A: National language support

Table of contents

• SCO Merge national language support
• Code pages and code sets
• How DOS handles NLS
  • Different kinds of code pages
  • Code page switching
  • Tailoring DOS for different languages
• How the UNIX operating system handles NLS
• NLS features of SCO Merge
  • Display considerations
  • Setting up the SCO Merge NLS environment
  • ISO serial character terminals
  • File name considerations
  • Printing in an NLS environment
  • Converting text files
    • Using dos2unix and unix2dos
    • Using charconv
    • charconv options
    • Using the CONVOPTS environment variable