General

Native Language Support controls the communication between the character set of the printer devices and that of bshell.

A bshell can use several character sets, including the eight-bit character set of ISO 8859-1. Many printers do not support this character set, therefore, Native Language Support techniques are implemented.

The character set of the terminal is uniform. However, various country-dependent keyboards can be used with the same terminal. Not all the characters of the terminal character set can be found on the keyboard. The remaining characters must be composed. The process to compose characters is described in Composed characters.

An output conversion table is used to convert the character set of the bshell to that of the printer. In this table, a character from ISO 8859-1 is converted to the corresponding value from the terminal character set. For a description of the conversion tables, refer to Conversion tables.

To maintain the conversion tables, you can use the NLS editor. This editor is described in NLS editor.

Conversion capabilities between the user interface and the bshell are not required because the prerequisite is that both be configured to run with the same character set.

WorkTop works in the character set configured in the Regional Options of the Windows system.

The bshell works in the character set defined in the User Data Template (ttams1110m000) session.