Appendix G HP and IBM Differences in DBCS Implementation

Table of Contents

User Input Error Checking

Characters Spanning Rows

IBM's Implementation
Hewlett-Packard's Implementation

Shift-Out/Shift-In Control Character Handling

Differences During User Input of Data
Differences on User's Terminal Screen

Control Character Mapping

Undefined DBCS Characters

User-Defined DBCS Characters

This appendix describes how Hewlett-Packard and IBM differ in their implementations of Asian Double-Byte Character Sets (DBCS). It covers the following topics:

User input error checking
Characters spanning rows
Shift-out/shift-in control character handling
Control character mapping
Undefined and user-defined DBCS characters

Appendix G HP and IBM Differences in DBCS Implementation

Technical documentation

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