VTxxx National Language Support

VTxxx National Language Support provides alternative methods of selecting character mapping between the client and server systems with VTxxx emulation.

These methods are:

Coded character set identifier (CCSID)
Multinational mode
National mode

If none of these modes is suitable, you might set up and specify your own user-defined mapping tables.

Note: VTxxx support is limited to a subset of single-byte character set (SBCS) languages. A list of the supported languages is found later in this section. Any of these supported single-byte language translation tables can be modified to map any single-byte language that is preferred, then identified in the appropriate parameter for starting Client Telnet.

Mode selection is done with the CCSID parameter of the Start TCP/IP Telnet (STRTCPTELN) command. The incoming ASCII/EBCDIC table (TBLVTIN) and outgoing EBCDIC/ASCII table (TBLVTOUT) parameters of this command allow the specification of user-defined mapping tables. If these are not required, the default value of *CCSID allows for character mapping by using the mode specified in the CCSID parameter.

VTxxx multinational mode

The multinational mode supports the DEC multinational character set, which is an 8-bit character set that contains most characters used in the major European languages. The ASCII character set is included in the DEC multinational character set. The DEC multinational character set is used by default.