OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Introduction
They modify this file to contain, for each code set that their platform supports, the
local code set names for those supported code sets. They can also add to this file any
vendor-specific, non-OSF registered code set names and values that their platform
supports.
In the second stage, DCE cell administrators create code set registry source files when
they are configuring machines that are part of an internationalized DCE cell. Cell
administrators of internationalized DCE cells create their site-specific code set registry
source files from one or more DCE licensee code set registry source files. Only one
code set registry source file exists on each machine. The number of source files that
need to be modified depends upon the number of DCE platforms that exist in the cell.
A code set registry source file is composed of a series of code set records. Each record
describes, in human-readable form, the mapping between an OSF-registered, a
licensee-defined, or a a site-specific unique code set value and the character string that
a given operating system uses when referring to that code set. This character string is
called the ‘‘local code set name’’. Each code set record specifies one code set, and has
the following form:
start
field_list
end
The field_list consists of the following keyword-value or keyword-text pairs:
description textA comment string that briefly describes the code set.
loc_name text A maximum 32-byte string (31 character data bytes plus a terminating
NULL) that contains the operating system-specific name of a code set
or the keyword NONE.
rgy_value value A 32-bit hexadecimal value that uniquely identifies this code set. A
registry value can be one that OSF has assigned or one that a DCE
licensee or cell administrator has assigned.
char_values value[:value] One or more 16-bit hexadecimal values that uniquely
identify each character set that this code set encodes. A character
value can be one that OSF has assigned or one that a DCE licensee or
a cell administrator has assigned.
max_bytes value A 16-bit value that specifies the maximum number of bytes this code
set uses to encode one character.
Here is a sample of a licensee-supplied source file.
start
description ISO 8859-1:1987; Latin Alphabet No. 1
loc_name iso88591
rgy_value 0x00010001
char_values 0x0011
max_bytes 1
end
start
description ISO 8859-2:1987; Latin Alphabet No. 2
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