Country Codes and Character Sets

This chapter contains information useful in providing national language support for a network station or a gateway.

Table 4. Supported Keyboard Types

Keyboard Type (Characteristics)	Figure
Space Saving (single row of function keys; no numeric keypad)
Enhanced and Microsoft® Natural (single row of function keys; numeric keyboard)
5576-001 (Japanese keyboard with double row of function keys; numeric keypad)
5576-002 (Japanese keyboard with single row of function keys; numeric keypad)
5576-003 (Japanese keyboard with single row of function keys; no numeric keypad)
5576-A01 (Japanese keyboard with single row of function keys; numeric keypad)

Keyboard Country ID and Shift Support

Table 5 shows the keyboard country ID and shift support for each country.

IBM Japanese Character Set (2-Byte Codes)

The IBM® Japanese character set defines characters that consist of 2-byte codes.

Character Types

The following characters are included in this character set:

• Basic kanji set
• Basic non-kanji set: alphabet, numerals, Katakana, Hiragana, symbols, and space
• Extended kanji set
• New extended kanji set
• New extended non-kanji set
• Extended non-kanji set: Roman numerals, Greek alphabet, and Russian alphabet

In addition to these characters, you can define up to 1880 (6205 for extended Unicode subset) user-defined characters.

Character Size

A kanji character is displayed on the screen using the area of two SBCS characters; it is usually enclosed with the shift characters hex 0E and hex 0F. Similarly, when a kanji character is printed, it uses the area of two SBCS printed characters. This size is equivalent to double the area used by alphabetic, numeric, and Katakana characters when they are displayed or printed.

IBM Kanji Codes

The following tables show the relationship between kanji and IBM kanji codes.

Following is the relationship between IBM kanji codes and kanji numbers:

kanji number = converted value of ((IBM kanji code) - x'4000')

All kanji characters can be entered using kanji numbers.

IBM Traditional Chinese Character Set

IBM Simplified Chinese Character Set, GBK Code

IBM Hangeul Character Set

Thai Language Support

Thai Display Mode Selection

Select Appearance -> Thai Compose Mode on emulator session.

Switching Keyboard between Thai and Latin

Press either Alt+left Shift or Alt+right Shift to toggle the keyboard between Thai and Latin.

Language Shift Status

The status line of each emulator session shows a language shift indicator. If keyboard is in Thai language shift, an indicator TH will appear in the status line.

Thai Display Composed Mode

Mode 1: Non-compose mode

No character composition occurs in this mode.

Mode 2: Composed mode

Thai characters are auto-composed in this mode. No column realignment is performed.

Mode 3: Composed with space alignment

In this mode of composing, three consecutive spaces cause column realignment. The realignment occurs whenever composing routine finds three consecutive spaces. Thus if all fields have at least three trailing spaces, then all fields of all records will be properly aligned.

Mode 4: Composed with EOF alignment

In this mode of composing, the EOF character (Hexadecimal 'EA') also causes column realignment. Whenever the composing routine finds a single EOF, it deletes the EOF and performs column realignment. If two consecutive EOFs are found, no realignment occurs, one EOF is deleted, and one EOF is treated as data.

Mode 5: Composed with space and EOF alignment

This mode of composing performs the column realignment function of both mode 3 and mode 4.

Printer Space Adjustment

If your printer needs space adjustment for Thai printing, add the following statement to PCSWIN.INI, which resides in the user-class application data directory:

 [Thai]
 PrintAdjust=x 

The value of x can be:

0

no adjustment (same as no PrintAdjust statement)

1

Perform adjustment when found three consecutive spaces

2

Perform adjustment when found EOF character

3

Perform adjustment when found three consecutive spaces or EOF character (combine 1 and 2)

Thai Scalable (Truetype) Font Support on Printers

Personal Communications provides a Thai Truetype font, ThaiPhuket. To print Thai characters, you can install a Thai scalable (Truetype) font as follows:

1. Open the Control Panel Folder.
   1. Click Start on the task bar.
   2. Move pointer to Settings and click Control Panel.
2. Open the Fonts Folder (Double-click the Fonts icon).
3. On the file menu, select Install New Font.
4. Click the drive and folder where Personal Communications is installed.
5. Double-click on ThaiPhuket.