Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL

Procedure Calls Summary (G-N)
Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL—522631-001
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MBCS_DEFAULTCHARSET_
Returns the default multibyte character set (MBCS) identification.
MBCS_EXTERNAL_TO_TANDEM_
Translates a text string from a specified external format to the Tandem internal text
format.
<6> reserved
<7> JIS Kanji
<8> reserved
<9> Tandem Hangul
<10> Chinese Big 5
<11> Chinese PC (5550C)
<12> Tandem KSC5601 (with KIPS extensions)
result := MBCS_DEFAULTCHARSET_;
result, INT:value output
0 No MBCS configured
1 Tandem Kanji
9 Tandem Hangul
10 Tandem Chinese Big 5
11 Tandem Chinese PC
12 Tandem KSC5601
error-code := MBCS_EXTERNAL_TO_TANDEM_ (
[ source-string ]
,[ destination-tring ]
,source-length
,maximum-length
,[ intermediate ]
,external-form
,[ finished-length ]
,[ shift-to-DBCS ]
,[ shift-to-one-byte ] );
error-code, INT:value returned value