COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.08+, J06.03+)

Alphabetscharacter-set-type
SpanishESPANOL
French (AZERTY keyboard)FRANCAIS-AZ
French (QWERTY keyboard)FRANCAIS-QW
Swedish, FinnishSVENSK-SUOMI
United KingdomUK
United States ASCIIUSASCII
In COBOL, this clause affects only the ALPHABETIC-UPPER, ALPHABETIC-LOWER, and ALPHABETIC
tests. In SCREEN COBOL, the CHARACTER-SET IS clause has some additional semantics, including
terminal configuration (see the Pathway/TS SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual).
The CHARACTER-SET clause does not define the character sets used for national literals or national
data items.
The default character set is USASCII. The UK character set designator is handled as a comment,
because it contains no extensions to the ALPHABETIC class. When the character set is USASCII
(or UK), the ALPHABETIC class test work as Table 21 shows.
Table 21 How Alphabetic Class Tests Work With Default Character Set
Verifies that each character is …Test
A space or a letter between A and Z or between a and zALPHABETIC
A space or a letter between A and ZALPHABETIC-UPPER
A space or a letter between a and zALPHABETIC-LOWER
If you specify a character-set-type other than USASCII or UK, the ALPHABETIC class includes
additional characters (see Table 22). The French character sets differ only in non-ALPHABETIC
characters.
Table 22 Additional Characters Accepted by Alphabetic Class Tests With Nondefault Character Sets
ASCII Character (Decimal Value and ASCII Graphic)
126 ~125 }124 |123 {9694 ^93 ]92 \91 [64 @Character Set
LLLLUUUDANSK-NORSK
LLLLUUUDEUTSCH
LUESPANOL
LLLLLFRANCAIS-QW
LLLLLFRANCAIS-AZ
LLLLLUUUUUSVENSK-SUOMI
L = This character is ALPHABETIC and ALPHABETIC-LOWER.
U = This character is ALPHABETIC and ALPHABETIC-UPPER.
SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph
The optional SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph assigns names of your choice to certain system-names.
In addition, you can define a currency sign other than the dollar sign ($), and you can exchange
the function of commas and periods in PICTURE character-strings and numeric literals.
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